I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist!

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.

No one can be trusted who isn't thrilled with himself at least now and then.

Nothing stays the same and nothing changes. What is old today will be new tomorrow. What is new today will be forgotten tomorrow.

The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful.

You'd be surprised how little voice you have when you lose everything.

The right things to do aren't always the easiest actions to take. But we must push ourselves to do them, because without them life would forever seem empty or meaningless.

No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

Miley would never have been Hannah Montana.

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats.

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

After learning to love God (worship), learning to love others is the second purpose of your life.