Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

I have a grim outlook on the world and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want on a lot of levels but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

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.

Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Photography alone of the arts seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.