A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.