The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

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.

Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.

We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.

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.