For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every spring that there are things you cannot choke in blood.

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

It is a great deal to fight while despising war, to accept losing everything while still preferring happiness, to face destruction while cherishing the idea of a higher civilization.

In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are disfiguring the face of our truth.

And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a remembered hill, the smile of a beloved face.

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.- The Trouble With Reading

When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart

You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.

For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.

Man's mind and spirit grow with the space in which they are allowed to operate.

In particular, I wanted to help build a team behind Boris Johnson so that a politician who argued for leaving the European Union could lead us to a better future.

Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality.

If your master is surly, from getting up early (And tempers are short in the morning), An inopportune joke is enough to provoke Him to give you, at once, a month's warning.