We are all guests on this earth. We come and we go. All of us. The oppressors and the oppressed, the weak and the strong. We are all here for a mere moment.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

Fashion is about owning whatever you're wearing, regardless of if it's a high fashion statement or not.

If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

Today, Paris is the capital of the world.

You go into the disease as one person and come out of it as a different person. It has changed my perspective on everything. Things that used to upset me no longer do.

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?

There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.