"Photos represent primarily a seductive but deleterious short cut."

“One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.”

Source : "The Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life" by Leo Babauta, 2009.

“Laughter is a form of internal jogging.”

“My daily affairs are quite ordinary; but I'm in total harmony with them. I don't hold on to anything, don't reject anything; nowhere an obstacle or conflict. Who cares about wealth and honor? Even the poorest thing shines. My miraculous power and spiritual activity: drawing water and carrying wood.”

“The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.”

“I admire Chris Martin. Coldplay have made some wonderful records for the genre they're involved in, but I would consider them to be more of a pop act. The music is much more cerebral than it is animalistic.”

Source : "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

“At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took....”

“Myrnin, drive carefully. Understand?" "Of course." He didn't.”

“A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.”