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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it.

We all have our own little thing, I think.

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors.

I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.