I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.

...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.

I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.

You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.

Wherever love comes from, whatever is its genesis, it isn’t like a quantity of gold or diamonds, even water in the earth-a fixed quantity, Fos thought. You can’t use up love, deplete it at its source. Love exists beyond fixed limits. Beyond what you can see or count.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.