"The artist's duty is to preserve the memory of his people."

"The world is a mysterious place, and we are all just trying to find our way through it."

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.