"Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life."

"The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings."

"Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are."

"If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?"

"The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back."

"To leave a mark on the world, remember that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job."

"“I see nobody on the road,” said Alice.  “I only wish I had such eyes,” the King remarked in a fretful tone.“To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!”"