I think what you can’t see is always what you should be frightened of.

What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.

I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.

You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.

...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.

Meditation on the Holy Scriptures is sweet to the soul.

Avoid the use of abusive words when communication is in session

God is spirit and in order to do works on earth, He needs a man, who has a spirit and a body

Imagination is a powerful magnet. The power of imagination

Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.

Neither Heaven nor Hell are far from routine. The biggest danger lies in the perception of the proximity.

Nobody's perfect cause we're just human making mistakes in ourlives and we need to be contented with that.

You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.

I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.

Actually... I'm starting a new thing and rebelling against ridiculously high heels. It's inhumane.