By some people the meal itself is a long delay between the appetizer and the dessert.

Borscht is more than a soup, it's a weather vane. When my family says they want hot borscht I know winter is coming, and when they want cold borscht I know how far can spring be behind?

So the legs are little short, the knees maybe knock a little but who listens?

I'm a firm believer in anxiety and the power of negative thinking.

It's such a corrosive chemical: fame.

A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine.

It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

I was homeless for a little bit. I was on people's couches, but it was an amazing journey. I got to make people laugh all the way.

Success is virulent. Once you get the bug then it's in you.

Love can be founded upon Nature only.