Wernher von Braun waits for Saturn 1 launch.

We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, what we are really saying is we've lost our connection to ourselves.

— Andy Goldsworthy

One day I will find the right words and they will be simple.

— Jack Kerouac

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Gerhard Richter at work.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

— Jacques Lacan

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

— Leonard Cohen

She had a nostalgia for a life she had never lived.

— Nancy Lemann

There is no longer room for irrelevant things. We have no longer got the resources. Irrelevance is out.

— Dieter Rams

Andrei Tarkovsky on the set of Solaris.

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.

— Vera Nazarian

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

— Charles Bukowski

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

— Bill Nye

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

— Oscar Wilde

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

— Alan Watts

Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.

— Antoine Lavoisier