I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people had finished and published novels; it couldn’t be so hard, right?
humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
if you'd teach me to swear in russian, i might have a new appreciation for it