Never be ashamed of your subject, and of your passion for your subject.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

A lack of giving in the life of a person will bring him to poverty.

America, the plum blossoms are falling.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me.

An injury to one is an injury to all.

My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.

My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

While I was sleeping, I had a beautiful dream that all the people of the world got together on the same wavelength and began helping each other.