We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually.

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film.

But he was here. In my bed. His body warm and hard and feeling so much like home that I ached.

Only you can change yourself, no one else can.

Those who are flexible in thought, will inevitably succeed.

The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera.

I make conscious decisions to stay out of the limelight. Without my make-up I'm pretty much the girl next door.

[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.

To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.

Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.

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