What I find most interesting about the U.S. is this idea of equality.

You have to show reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

Hate is contagious. A few seconds after Donald Trump has told me something hateful, somebody else repeats it. He has legitimized what people only dare say in their kitchens and bedrooms.

I didn't want to be an immigrant. I was forced to be an immigrant. Alexis de Tocqueville, the French writer, said that the powerful and the happy never go into exile. He was right.

Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can apply that to journalism.

Happiness for me is the people whom you love, love you back.

My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made.

When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can’t go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they’re covered with soil or stones?

Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.

Balance is the natural state of life, because the basic characteristic of the fundamental element of life, pure consciousness, is complete balance.

Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous.