“As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked my father, up my ass.”

“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.”

“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”

“Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.”

“What other people think of me is not my business.”

“Personally, I didn't take a single photograph while I was there, but that's not all that unusual for me. I suppose my aversion to snapping pictures may have something to do with shaky hands and blurry results, but there's another reason: The act of lifting up the camera and positioning it between me and the object of my interest separates me from the experience.”

“I wouldn't have minded living in Provence for a month or however long it took for me to learn to say, 'I've been attacked by a wild boar. Help me find my spleen!”