I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

When demons are required someone will always be found to supply the part, and whether you step forward or are pushed is all the same in the end.

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.