«People ask me when I start one of these projects, what is your theme? I haven?t the faintest idea. That?s why you?re writing the book, it seems to me, to find out. To me, it?s a journey. It?s an adventure. It?s traveling in a country you?ve never been in and everything is going to be new, and because of that, vivid. And don?t make up your mind too soon. Let it be an experience.»

«How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers»

«Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.»

«Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.»

«Once the children were in the house the air became more vivid and more heated; every object in the house grew more alive»

«Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses / those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.»

«Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence within me of these unmade images that is the only assurance that the best photographs are yet to be made.»

«Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.»

«In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them hither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes. Were an angel of the Lord to come and drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, the assemblage would be seriously depleted, but there would still be some men, of both present and past times, left inside.»

«About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.»