I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.

I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

Love is a territory where orders can't be issued.

He who seeks eternity should look at the sky, he who seeks the moment, should look at the cloud.

Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness.

Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind.