The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

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.

Jan had always been a good pianist, and now he was the finest in the world.

The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.

I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.

Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.

As you train and as you develop your talents, you do get better, hopefully, or you get out of the business.

One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak December, And all its pleasures, were but whited pain.

When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.

I think people figure out early in their lives what currency they can work in.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.