Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

I think you can love someone and be infatuated with them, too. But infatuation is immediate, while the sort of love in the West is something you build with someone. It's a trust.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.

You can't put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the excitement and we can't have one without the other.

It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.