Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place. For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.