An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.

The first thing you do is don't let the jobs leave. The companies are leaving.

Corporate money is controlling everything.

The Jungle Bush Beaters didn't last too long as a group, but we had a pretty good time while we did.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.