It’s my belief that animals can help a human being travel to the wounds of childhood. The best part is, once you go there, you can fix things. Get on with life.

Sleep is just a good idea. I bow to the god caffeine.

Juniper laughed for real, but one of those fake smiles he considered a plague of the Caucasian race followed. If you’re sad, be sad, he wanted to say.

The journey of life is filled with unlimited opportunities and possibilities.

The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it.

You need to choose your association according to your vision.

[V]alue your dreams but . . . be wary of them also, . . . look for integrity in unusual places.

No man was ever yet a great poet without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

Bad enough to make mistakes, without going ahead and marrying them.

For my generation, the monetary union has always been about forging peace.

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.