I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.

I find that life, day by day, is composed of at least one joy, one problem and one sorrow. Then there are the smaller ingredients: you always learn something, whether useful or harmful - that is difficult to analyze until later; you always give something; you alwayou always grow a little in one direction or another.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

"We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."

We see things the way we are, not the way they are.

There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.

The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.