...you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.

True love is a star surrounded by stars.

I'm taking a vow not to advise.

A good work can be communicated across languages ... [provided one does not] fall into the trap of narrow-minded nationalistic or chauvinistic thinking.

I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger

Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?

I love playing piano, too, but I don't sit around doing it all day. Part of that's because I don't have one in my house - I only have synths.

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.