Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they think?

I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me.

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with.