We have met the enemy, and it is us.

An extraordinary set of reminiscences, beautifully put together by an extremely sensitive, even gifted interviewer. It is a jewel.

Worry less, pray more.

I finally stop feeding my mind with toxic thoughts and started nurturing my heart and soul with love instead.

In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'

European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.

Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.

Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.

Is the NAFTA a stepping stone toward the New World Order? Absolutely!

With the first record (2008’s Ladyhawke) I was quite naive, but very excited and happy.

Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result.

The Pope is a man. The Pope needs the input of women, too. And the Pope, too, has a heart that can have a healthy, holy friendship with a woman.