The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.

And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.

Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.

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.

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach