Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.

Emotions can become habits - she said haltingly as she wiped her eyes. But habits can be changed".

Remember that reading these quotes will not change your life. These quotes only work to push you in the right direction. You are the only one who can change you.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.

The single right decision to take is to forget the past so that it does not mislead you at a later stage

Why had my life suddenly become a Nancy Drew mystery from hell?

Dada is a state of mind.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.

I can't say L'Etranger influenced me to write, but for the first time I considered the possibility of telling a story that resembled my own experiences in my own voice.