Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.

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.

The mind and soul are formed when the spirit and flesh meet

Your mind is an entire world, your heart is an entire cosmos, and your soul is an entire universe.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.

I signed up for the musical Tommy in the West End, where I met my husband.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

I'm not allowed to bet, but if I could, my money would be on you.

Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple.