I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?

Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments.

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn’t share them all at once.

It made me happy that poems are referred to in the present tense even when the poet is in the past tense.

Don’t worry, my friend. I won’t let you die.” I was seventeen and stupid and I believed him.

When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break.

'Cat?' 'Cat' can be anybody from the guy in the gutter to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man to the lowest man, but if he's in there with a good heart and enjoy the same music together, he's a cat.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.

I am dying innocent. The sentence is wrong. God protect Germany and make Germany great again. Long live Germany! God protect my family!

I will always stand firm to protect the sanctity of marriage. I believe it is important to work with people to find common ground on difficult issues.

The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.

The world changes when there's music in it.

The studio is an extension of the sandbox and the kindergarten playroom. It has a dynamic unlike any office or factory. It's a room at the service of a dreamer on her way to becoming a master.