What power--what importance--lies in the blank lines of an open notebook. Go and fill yours. Then share.

Teachers need to sit with their journal and write in the voice of that teenager. Write and remember. That’s who we teach!

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

There has been no electricity in Baghdad for a week and the people are angry. You would be angry too if you couldn't watch your brand new stolen TV.

I know who likes football likes me

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them -- who were above such trifling.

The bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop.

I think that everything changes when it goes through the Mac; it's cheap. I think people then don't pay too much importance to the take, if you can do 40 takes.

Sometimes I just stand on the beach and look at the water, and Cuba feels so close it's unbelievable.

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

There's a world out there. Open a window, and it's there.