First ambitions are best. We are less brave later.

Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.

But it is hard, whatever you have endured, to give up on love. Hard to stop thinking of it as a home you might one day find again. More than hard

Art, I subsequently realised, is like that. It softens by association and implication. It renders the hard pliable. It creates gaps, gaping holes really, in possibility.

And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level.

Sometimes the heart demands.

The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping.

We are, after all, human. There is something wild in those opposable thumbs.

The visit, like all visits home for a long time now, has been an obscure failure. When is it we cease to be able to go back, truly go back? What secret door is it that closes?

Control is an advertising concept.

If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin.

November 20th, 2013. A new beginning. A new day. Reborn. Time to grow. Hello world! I am yours. Feed me, I am full of curiosity. Awakened.

Watching the summer close is like watching a good kid die for no apparent reason.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

The death of a young person for no reason is an apocalypse.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it.

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.

I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.