Clichés so often befall vain people.

Even when we win, we lose, Lyss thought.

It takes a year to be collectively known as "intelligent" but it takes a lifetime to be distinguished as "wise

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

Cryptography is typically bypassed, not penetrated.

The only conflict that is possible in Soviet culture is the conflict between good and best.

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.

I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice.

A gentleman is someone who never gives offense unintentionally.

Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.