Even if you look in the dictionary you know the meaning of the word or phrase, but there's still the feeling of it.

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.

For me, the more I understand the story of others, the greater I am able to learn and help other people.

Sometimes the mere connection we make with each other can change people's lives. It doesn't have to be something big. The mere fact that you're interested in them makes them happy.

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous thoughts.

I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me, I wrote in journals.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].

This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince

If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction

If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion.

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

And no one drank just one shot of tequila.

If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.

There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.

In our totality we are born of the Earth. Our spirituality itself is earth-derived... If there is no spirituality in the earth, then there is no spirituality in ourselves