"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."
"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."
"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."
"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."