“That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.”

“your life can change in an instant. that instant can last forever.”

“It is easier with strangers, for they touch your life but for an instant. You will not disappoint them, for you owe them nothing; neither do they expect anything. Friends you can hurt, for they expect everything.”

“I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.”

“So-called immobile objects exist only in movement. Immobile, certain, and permanent things, ideas, works and beliefs change, transform, and disintegrate. Immobile objects are snapshots of a movement whose existence we refuse to accept, because we ourselves are only an instant in the great movement. Movement is the only static, final, permanent, and certain thing. Static means transformation. Let us be static together with movement. Move statically! Be static! Be movement! Believe in movement's static quality. Believe in change. Do not hold onto anything. Change! Do not pinpoint anything! Everything about us is movement. Everything around us is change. Believe in movement's static quality. Be static.”

“A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.”

“Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.”

“Nothing may happen without wyrd, for it is present in everything, but wyrd does not make things happen. Wyrd is created at every instant, and so wyrd is the happening.”

“Grand buildings made her feel better--maybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent.”

“Picturing others and everything which brings you closer to them is futile from the instant that ‘communication’ can make their presence immediate.”