.... When you have no voice, you don't exist

The odd thing about recurring dreams is that, no matter how many times you dream the same thing, it always takes you by surprise.

Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think that much about children; I'm not a child educator; I'm just a former child.

Humanization and coming to understand somebody as a human being is about as good a kind of forgiveness as you can get, I think.

They will never believe that an ordinary girl could do such an extraordinary thing, " Genevieve worried. "What would I tell them?""Tell them there is no such thing as an ordinary girl, " said Bloom.

To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

I want to put elements from movies into TV to raise the quality of TV.

The best work is a fusion of love and praise.

I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

I never claimed to be famous. Notorious I have always been.

I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

I wish everyone a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true fraternity.

A princely mind will undo a private family.