I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

- Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and all be well.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.