Do we exist because others perceive our existence, or is, indeed, our own affirmation enough?

No true hero ever believes that they are one.

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.

I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.

Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent

I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't

Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus.

Wars have a way reinventing people. And making too many things disappear.-Sonia

Sometimes, Lev, I just want to smack you.""You already hit him with a car.

I Didn't Ask to Be a Senior Citizen (I Was Drafted)

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.

I treated her like a pair of gloves. When I was cold, I called her up.

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

You can't fake being able to cook well.

My serve and my forehand I pretty much always had, but my backhand was a made backhand. I worked on it for years.

I liked that the work itself was something other than simply what you saw It meant you could have an art work which was that idea of an art work, and its formal components weren't important.

I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.

It is essential to learn to enjoy life. It really does not make sense to go through the motions of existence if one does not appreciate as much of it as possible.

All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.