This is what I’ve always loved about a city, all the worlds hidden away inside, largest of aquariums.

Even now, I still believe metamorphosis is the greatest beauty.

As if each of us might somehow have a blueprint. As if somewhere there's the shape of my life, and I had the chance to choose a few variations, but not far from the pattern.

A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again?

Maybe this is as near as we can come to forgiveness. Not the past wiped away, nothing undone, but some willingness in the present, some recognition and embrace and slowing down.

The worst part of childhood is not knowing that bad things pass, that time passes. A terrible moment in childhood hovers with s kind of eternity, unbearable.

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.

There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.

It also has potential to cause problems to individuals who had nothing to do with the terrorism issue.

The Eurovision Song Contest is by definition apolitical - unless your song criticises Russia, of course.

It takes more than industry to industrialize.

What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.