Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.

In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.

People tell you to believe in yourself for your whole life, then call you arrogant when you begin taking their advice.

Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greates gems of light.

When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece...in order to win.

I was a black singer with a white voice, a perfect pop voice.

The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.

Michael Jackson is one of the most normal people I know.

We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.

General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau.

Even the poor can be fat in the U.S.

Tell the truth and make it rhyme