"Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer is like a cloud, pushed all around, always dependent on the exterior world. That's what I sometimes feel as a pain and an error."

“I wish that I myself did have faith in God, that I had a religion, sometimes. But not always.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“I hate the tribal hatred thesis - in Yugoslavia and Rwanda and places like that they kill each other because that's just what people do there. I think it's profoundly ignorant. I was astonished when Samuel Huntington wrote his famous clash of civilizations essay in response to the Yugoslavian war. I was on the streets in Sarajevo and every other person I met came from a mixed marriage. And here is Professor Huntington from Harvard writing this is a clash of civilizations. That was absurd.”

“All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.”

“Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.”

“What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.”

Source : Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

“The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party.”

Source : "Why Tea Party women lead the charge". www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2010.

“The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.”

Source : "Note on a Quaternion Transformation", Communication read on Monday, 6th April, 1863, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, p. 117, 1866.

“The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.”