I'm not a creature of your government's creation. I'm not a creature of any government's creation. I answer to a higher power, and that higher power is music.

"To be a novelist is to be interested in what other people aren't interested in."

"When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments: tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become."

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

Collaboration across borders is essential—fish don't recognize national boundaries, and neither should our efforts to protect them.

"A play is a wound that never heals."

If there was less sympathy in the world there would be less trouble in the world.