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

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.

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

...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.

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

Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.

I think what you can’t see is always what you should be frightened of.