We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight of each other's stones.

Hands have their own language.

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.

It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.

Athens is the birthplace of modern tragedy. In the Greek tragic plays, the tableau of the characters would become a statue, like the statue of Oedipus reaching up to the Gods with blood spilling out of his eyes. I love the way the Greeks would immortalize experience. Things that all of us feel.

I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life.