We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant transition and we must not fundamentalise any of them.

Do your thoughts continue and repeat a cycle Seed, growth, bloom, and seed again

When you're young, it's hard not to get together with your costar.

If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move.

Whatever happens, I'm ready to face it.

Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.

I practice all the scales. Everyone should know lots of scales. Actually, I feel there are only scales. What is a chord, if not the notes of a scale hooked together?

I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.

Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.

I stay as far away from politics as possible, or any controversy.