"Recognize the good in others, not their stains."

-- Richard G. Scott

“That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at once-all of them being fair to each other.”
“Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.”
“My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.”
“Once in a while it can be a bit disconcerting to be so recognisable.”
“Only two can keep a secret if on of them is dead.”
“A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.”
“A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible.”

Source : Le Parisien, May, 2003.
“The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.”

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