To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.

When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down

Beauty always takes place in the particular.

Beauty brings copies of itself into being.

Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.

One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.

If we had to and were able to suffer the sufferings of everyone, we could not live.

Sooner or later, they’ll realize that having one spider in the house kills a lot of the lesser insects.

The success of every single woman is the inspiration for another.

I don't like the idea that fame could mean that people can no longer relate to me.

Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.

When you're told there's no way you can marry the woman you love and your only hope of being near her is to marry her sister, wouldn't you do the same?

San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal

Fans are the best. I'd do whatever for them.

I call my balls the bush twins.