Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable compositions. Only visible are the dunes, the blinding fields of flowers and the vast sky, the epic intimacy of Robert Vavra's vision.

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other.

Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just... his... turn!

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them