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

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

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.

Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.

His meat was going to be very fulfilling.

The quality of your life is a function of the quality of the thinking you have done.

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

I could spend two years cross-legged on my floor and feel like I was working.

The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms

The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't.

In no state in America is it legal for a landlord to demand their tenants lead a "healthy lifestyle" in order to rent property.

You are within God. God is within you.

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.