To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.

There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.

I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.

It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting for dinner, and listening to the blues.

People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street.