It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

A picture has been said to be something between a thing and a thought.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.

A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lyon.

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

if you think you know all that somebody knows, you shall least know all that somebody knows. If you think you least know all that somebody knows, you shall really know all that somebody knows.

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.

Being bad. Discomfort with your body. Bad self image. All those things turn you into an artist. The same things that keep you from being in a proper marriage.

You know, you find that these stories ... will turn one of us into the good guy and one of us into the bad guy. If you look at it closely or even not that closely ... it's ridiculous.

I knew I wanted to be an actress as soon as I popped out.

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon.

I have been known for almost 30 years to sort of do whatever comes my way. It's always been touch-and-go after each job finishes. I just like to be working.

Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.