When you come to Venice, you do special work.

Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.

Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.

It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well.

An act of kindness blossoms our lives with gladness.

You tend to become that, what you want most. Expect the best and give it your best. Make success happen.

a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.

He felt that the stars had been pulverized by the sound of the black jets and that in the morning the earth would be covered with their dust like a strange snow.

I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.

Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life.

It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.

My whole life has been dedicated to public service.

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.

Everything that matters to we can work out as expected, in the event that we have the strength to seek after them.