We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.