"There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things."

“Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.”

Source : "As One Mad with Wine and Other Similes" by Elyse Sommer, p. 207, 1991.

“I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.”

“I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.”

“It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.”

Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word and other words”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

“Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.”

“You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't.”

Source : James Richardson (2010). “By the Numbers”, p.34, Copper Canyon Press

“As soon as you feel comfortable, that's when it's time to start over.”

“I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.