Growing up in a house with six brothers and sisters is a lot like being on a tour bus. There's not a whole lot of private space, so you figure out how to make it work.

Two are born to cross their paths, their lives, their hearts. If by chance, one turns away, they are they forever lost.

The smallest issues can become the most important things in life and reality slips away.

I'm a romantic slob!

I'd rather be a musician than a rockstar.

Good music is good music.

Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.

Thing that was very different for me is that an American child's reading is filled with Americans.

The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.

Christianity is not "Jesus is our example." Christianity is "Jesus is our substitute."