I was the kind of child who always poked around wherever there was fear: to see what kind of a creature fear was.

I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginnings.

Don't spend the rest of your lives chasing your own desires, but be anxious to do the will of God.

And maybe a few days of freedom would be better than a lifetime spent as a slave.

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

I've lived in a bubble my whole life. I never thought someone with those kind of views, who came across to me so ignorant every time he speaks, could ever be elected.

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.

I do not want a boy. I only want Monseigneur!

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward.

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.