I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.

I love coffee. It's one of my favorite things in the world, and I love tasting different coffees.

When you hear the echoes of my mind, you'll know that I wasn't listening to what you said.

We are angels just like the rest of our brothers and sisters.

It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.

I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.

Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.