As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them --"ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is.

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

Something that is yours forever is never precious