"Giraldus, garrulous, egotistic, spiteful, as he is, makes us half forget his faults in the endless instruction, the endless amusement, of his pages."

"Two out of my three cats follow me around like furry little stalkers. It's such a nice ego boost."

"Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these …"

"Fourth, we must be self sufficient in producing our basic food staples such as rice and corn and fish."

"Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself."

"It is like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock, which not only is itself discredited but casts a shade o…"

"Wouldst thou bestow some precious gift upon thy fellows, make thyself a noble man."