...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.

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 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.

I will never turn to God.

I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.

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