I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.

Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?

Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

When I'm scared - and I'm always scared when I have to face an audience, when I have to read a review, when I publish a book...then, I think of my grandfather. My grandfather was this strong, tough Basque who would never bend....What would he do? Well, he would go ahead, close his eyes, and drive forward. You do it and the spirit that is within you....is there.

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to die in, die painfully. But I'm aware of the fact that they may die before I do and I have to part with them and take the loss. The hardest thing of love is to let go. But I think I can get let go of almost anybody.