Tina nods sagely and says yes and then something in Plautdietsch, probably something like heck yeah do we ever know what sad is. Sadness is what holds our bones in place.

Let's not have forced gaiety this Christmas, said Nora, like it was a dish. We'll have a tiny bit of it, I said.

People need to feel safe to be who they are—to speak up when they have an idea, or to speak out when they feel something isn't right.

Human beings connect with a holy hug.

The difference between a free human and a human is not the word "free" it's the word "human", because humanity can never be caged with the chains of slavery.

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

There was no image of the other biological half of myself. And as an artists, as a - as an - as a portraitist, the look of who you are was radically important to me.

Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do.

What I hope is that I don't just become 'Peter from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.' I want to try and do something else to be a good actor and a respected actor.