A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

You've never had wok-seared spicy broccoli until you've had takeout trans-temporal wok-seared spicy broccoli delivered by a copy of yourself.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

You're about as delicate as an AK-47.

A gift of truth is the gift of love.

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

Nobody remembers the guy who finished second but the guy who finished second.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

So many people are so busy being busy that they don’t spend time on the foundation of their life.

It may sound funny, but I got a thrill when I was pulled into a crowd once. It was like 'How am I going to get out of this?!