Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

Jaron Lanier

I'm guided by a signal in the heavens I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.

Leonard Cohen

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Jean de la Bruyere

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Yann Martel

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

David Bailey, In Face (London),

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Francis Bacon

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

Orson Welles

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

Diane Kruger

Science is agnostic when it comes to God - not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly - just agnostic.

Eric Chaisson

They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system.

John Anderson

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Emily Dickinson

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy.Deceit is a poison in its veins.

Edward M. Kennedy