"What's best about those seaside towns is that they are like time warps, and that's why people go there."

“People seem to be losing their sense of boundaries more and more, what people are willing to put up on the internet, especially blogs. People seem to assume that only their friends are going to read it but anyone in the world could read it at any time.”

“I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second. It's very instinctive. What you do is a fraction of a second, it's there and it's not there. But in this fraction of a second comes your past, comes your future, comes your relation with people, comes your ideology, comes your hate, comes your love - all together in this fraction of a second, it materializes there.”

“There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it. The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.”

Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

“To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.”

“There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.”

“Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”

“Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.”

“I'd really like to have a family at some point. Not that I'm not focused on my career - of course I am. And if a great project comes my way, then of course I'll take it. But I'm not actively out seeking something specific.”