When I was a kid, I was just like any other boy. Boys are very curious, they like to push the walls, you know? (1988)

They speak French better. [on being asked how French women differ from American women] (2004)

I wasn't the best kid in the world, but I wasn't an ax murderer, either. (1988)

Ultimately, though, what I love about being [in France] is the culture, which is very old. (2004)

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are, Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky!

A little while ago, not much more than a few days ago, I was a child who went about in a world of colors, of hard and tangible forms. Everything was mysterious…