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.

The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life

Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted.

In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net.

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

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.

Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying?