To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew . . .

World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

But silence is where victims dwell.

Instead of a homeland I hold the metamorphoses of the world.

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.

The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.

I don't want you to have to handle it. That's the horror of my past. But you...you're the reality of my present. You're the proof I survived. The prize in the cereal box.

Whosoever possesses a camera should never know boredom.

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.

I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.