Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life.

In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.

She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life.

After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.