Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.

I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.