I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most of all that he had been able to find a way to forgive himself.

The present is all we have, yet it is the one thing we will never learn to hold in our hands.

I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or the distillation, of an observation that came before

The only life that matters is in your mind. The only truth is the one that lives invisibly, that waits even after you close the book. Silence, too, is a kind of music. Silence will last.

The young man murmured in his sleep and said, “Dear Sparrow, ” and Sparrow felt, for the first time, how the purest joy could be a heaviness.

If some people say what is in their hearts and other people say what glides easily off the tongue, how can we talk to one another?

I've got nothing to offer you kids but these noodles. They're good noodles but they won't change the world.

Your doubt survives by stuffing itself with your confidence.

The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.

A child’s best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories.

I shall die as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian.

Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.

I'm a film rat. I love being in front of a camera. I love being behind a camera. I love talking to the director. I love talking film.

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

The way to transform your immense inner value into outer riches is by giving it freely and authentically to others.

It's not necessarily that satisfying getting monetary success, but sometimes it keeps the door open to make what you want to make.

Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess.