He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
All creation is in the art of seeing.
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.
In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood
My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.