The interviewer always learns something new from the interviewee. It opens up your mind to new ideas and the vast multiplicity of human experience.

I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their identities and experiences.

I love wandering. It's liberating to throw away the map and explore uncharted galleries. You'll nearly always stumble into something immensely interesting that way.

Always keep your hand and heart extended to touch someone with love and kindness.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

The world we are is a secret prison and the secret prison is power.

Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

The white devil's time is up.

What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.

My favourite dish is my chocolate mousse. It's like heaven on earth. It's the best chocolate mousse that you could ever imagine. You have to start with the highest-quality chocolate.

You don't hear me lambasting, engaging in personal attacks, getting nasty. I don't think that belongs in politics.