A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
May books spread the world over!
I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
I am not an autobiographical writer.
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
Endangered species are our friends.
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.
I've never heard an agency say, 'Unless you industrialize I will not support you'.
None of the parties want this conflict to go on.
We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.
There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.
You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.
My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.
As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.
