I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.