Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.

Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

Fear must die for your dreams to live.

Appearance can always be changed, but the talent stays the same.

I'd rather hug Magic Johnson after he rolled around in barbed wire.

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

In Turkey, the media wait for you outside. You go down to them, in tunnel, and sometimes, people are yelling and throwing things. They throw coins. I get hit in the head. Bleeding. There is blood.

The will is a product of integrity, not a child of contradictions.

I was born with this bow tie made of celluloid on my collar.

The subtle are the causes, the gross the effects.

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.