A neighbor once told me he had trouble with García Márquez’s novel because he likes to drink while he reads, and 'The Autumn of the Patriarch' gave him no space in which to take a sip of his beer.

Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.

I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.

My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.

I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved.

Meditation is the straight flight of the mind to the Kingdom of Heaven present in the heart of everyone.

The whole trend and quality of anyone's life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made.

The family is a community of love where each of us learns to relate to others and to the world around us.

It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.