"The woman who became the Duchesse d'Angoulême did indeed have painful memories, but she was not only very brave but I would say she had "nerves of steel." As I wrote in the book, one woman, defeated, one woman, defiant."

“We have received unconfirmed reports out of our embassy in Amman in Jordan that two Indonesian nationals, or precisely two Indonesian reporters ... have been taken away by armed individuals,”

Source : "Iraq: Indonesia reporters missing". www.cnn.com. February 18, 2005.

“Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.”

“Egypt loved the lotus becuase it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant as a name-two syllables, one high, one sweet- summon up the innumerable smiles, tears, sighs and dreams of a human life.”

“Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.”

Source : Richard Powers (2014). “Orfeo”, p.25, Atlantic Books Ltd

“If I were a lame only just for a week. I'd look at myself in the mirror and shoot the first thing I see.”

“The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be true to them. If he includes in his space a strip of grass, it must be felt as the living differentiated thing it is and so recorded. It must take its proper but no less important place as a shape and a texture in relationship to the mountain tree or what not, which are included.”

“You have to enjoy the game. I enjoy everything about life.”

“Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.”