I don't want to live my life in a five-star hotel. That's not real life to me. You can't appreciate it.
I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
I wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it...why I hadn't known how good it was to live so normally, so everyday. But you only know that, I suppose, after it's not normal and every day any longer.
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
Art can do the opposite of glamourise the unattainable: it can show us anew the genuine merit of life as we're forced to lead it. It is advertising for the things we really need.
A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.
