Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.

People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.

There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.

Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.