I fell in love with his unchanging soul.

Now I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

He deserves better than this. But "deserves" doesn't have a lot to do with falling in love.

Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

We can't begin to learn until we admit how much we don't know.

My hate is stronger than the dimensions, stronger than memory, stronger than time. My hate is now the truest part of who I am.

You always apologize for things you don't know. You should stop.

Before you get in trouble, it pays to ask yourself how you'll get out again.

Don't you think you ought to at least think about getting yourself to your ultimate? Because, trust me, nobody else is going to get you there.

The universe is in fact a multiverse.

The breathtaking view at the mountaintop is compensation for all of the breath lost whilst sweating towards it.

For what is your life? It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away.

I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am.

So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy or choosing to be sad, or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing.

I definitely had creative people around me, but my parents were more just very encouraging.

The power of purity-it is a definite power.