All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend.

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 can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

Second rule of the bush. Never get too close to anything that has offspring.What's the first rule?Food runs. If you don't want to be food, don't run.

In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel.

My personal philosophy is that you do art to experience emotion that you don't have the luxury of experiencing in real life.

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

He falls asleep believing he's been robbed, not knowing that the summoning of demons is almost always unwitting.

I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity.

Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God.

If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype.

It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.