"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."

十年树木，百年树人。

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ’Funny Face’ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

To be a writer is to be a watcher, a listener, a recorder.

I'm not a saint, I'm a sinner.