If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

O Lord, Thy Word, gives me hope.

Falling in love isn't about expectations or an outcome.It is about the sheer, weightless, joyous terror of falling into the universal embrace.

One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.

Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly

You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?" Elayne asked. "I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.

Mixed doubles are always starting divorces. If you play with your wife, you fight with her; if you play with somebody else, she fights with you.