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.

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

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

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.

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

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