My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.
Walking through the city streets. . . Is it by mistake or design?
I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.
My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.
Be like snow - cold, but beautiful.
They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.
No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do
There were a lot of things I listened to, but so-called pop music never killed me, you know, the type of stuff that always seems to make it on the radio. The whole radio thing seems so. . . it's like they've accepted the whole "new wave" thing only because this kind of pop element came into it. In Europe they really love emotion, but here it's like, "let's stay away from it because we might cry or something".
I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.
For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.