It is the professed goal [of U.S. multinational corporations] to control as large a share of the world market as they do of the United States market.

You can't prepare for the things that change your life. They come suddenly and unannounced.

Im here and he’s not. That I’m alive and he’s…

Every word, every sentence, every poem and every chapter of a book I have written came from the bottom of my heart, it's very special and very unique to me.

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.

She's a devil, she's an angel, she's a woman, she's a child. She's a heartache when she leaves you, but she'll leave you with a smile.

You've either got it or you haven't.

Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.

Luck is when skill meets opportunity.