Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

Love is disgusting when you no longer possess yourself.

In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. And wehave no right to do that—we never have had, not since the creation of the world.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

If there were any people who were my role models I would just say it was my family's influence and the family and the kids around me.

brains last, beauty doesn't.

For me, art can reflect the celebration of the simple and good things in life. This is most important to me!

I'm not into wrinkles.