Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

Simone de Beauvoir

“Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.”

Ann Rand

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college.
People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money.
At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

Ray Bradbury

“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.”

Imogen Cunningham

Whether a mouse moving across a screen or the progress of a Facebook post through a thousand different servers, the way we value time seems to have altered, as if the earth tilted on its axis, as if the seasons are different and new.

Paul Ford, 10 Timeframes

“How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?”

Katherine Mansfield

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”

Dorothea Lange

“What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot grasp the fact that a human foot is more noble than the shoe and the human skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed.”

Michelangelo

“Ordinary life does not interest me”

Anais Nin