Friday, February 20, 2009

"posing for photographs ... was done out of a realization of their own mortality, and that in the face of impermanence - of the day, of the week, of life - one craved photographs."

"any sound of nature soothes, because it makes man instinctively feel a part of nature too, and part of life's rhythms, the swelling and ebbing of tides, growth and decay, birth and death, and the stars at night."

To smokers: "...poisoning his lungs with deliciousness. He considered it all right (and with what gravity he did that!) for a mature man, who knows what he wants, and the attendant risks he's taking, to kill himself by what he ingests and inhales. At least it's a conscious act." What sarcasm!