contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.
Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.
. . . how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe’
The only things that interested me were sports, girls, adventures, celebrities - in short, life.
We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels.
Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.