Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

Life is a state of mind.

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

When I see an evil person, I cannot believe that once he was an innocent and sweet baby.

Life as an art cannot be copied

The architect, like other workers in our endeavor, is facing the inevitability of a change of profession: he [sic] will no longer be a builder of forms alone, but a builder of complete ambiances.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Congratulations! Today is your day!

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.

There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.

My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.

Few people give themselves time to be friends.