American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am that stranger.

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 will never get everything in life but you will get enough.

And finally we get addicted to our sadness.

Ignoring the question is not the solution of problem, Same as forgetting the sorrow isn't happiness

Justice isn’t about fixing the past

You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.

Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."

The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program.

I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.