When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.

And I come to realise that all my small todays, the way I act, will lead into my tomorrows.

The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.

Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.

Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, between people just as easily as between moments of time.

If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all I know.

You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just now. I like you as a lover, not a friend.

Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings.

Imperceptibly, more time passes when I'm not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making. It is immeasurably sad.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

Samyak buddhi (right intellect) is that which shows things as they are.

Nothing is my last word on anything.

The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything.

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is - are difficult to do away with. And this is a very demanding job.

The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.

The true strength of any relationship is measured in bad times not good.

Every day you spend becoming an expert in a field, you become more useless in that field.

Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way.

For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863...