"Our tongues, fluent in lover's kiss."

“The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.”

“So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the Reformation, to escape subjectivity and metaphysical isolation - a wish for power to reach this world, having for so long tried, at last hopelessly, to manifest fidelity to another... Photography overcame subjectivity in a way undreamed of by painting, one which does not so much defeat the act of painting as escape it altogether: by automatism, by removing the human agent from the act of reproduction.”

“Care, because it is what you do. Care, and be vibrantly alive.”

“It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.”

Source : Gerrit Smith (1856). “Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress”, p.22

“I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.”

“There's a plane flying over me and I'm looking forward to being able to relax and not worry about the weather or boat speed.”

“There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.”

“I became a manager very young. My first sous chef job I was, maybe, 25. It was a bit too early for me. But it's on-the-job training. You really just get stuck in there and it's trial and error. You learn by your mistakes, and hopefully you don't keep making them. And if you do, you just keep trying to fix it.”