"Most people can stay excited for two or three months. A few people can stay excited for two or three years. But a winner will stay excited for twenty or thirty years...or as long as it takes to win."

“As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs. And as long as we have our films, we can preserve signs in their old purity. It is my hope that we will all love and guard our beautiful sign language as the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.”

“I tend to like people that are generous and give other people the benefit of the doubt.”

“The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.”

“Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most”

“I've put on a lot of weight... I only weighed six and a half pounds when I was born.”

“Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.”

“Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy”

“I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.”

Source : Alessandro Baricco (2013). “Ocean Sea”, p.182, Canongate Books