(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.

The people need a hero. But all they've got is . . . me.

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself.

I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.

Tonight I feel like all of creation is asking us to dance.

It doesn't matter how old you are, there is a little child within who needs love and acceptance.

I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.