Everyone has too much of something, whether it’s time, talent or treasure. Everyone does have their own half, you just have to find it.

Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.

The trick to being smart is knowing when to play dumb.

Someone could drag me to hell, and I’d crawl back to you, Maya, for a chance to make right everything that was ever wrong between us.

It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.

Oh Time, you arise with parting! [О, Время, ты от разлуки!]

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

A system devolving power to the regions is the route to a viable Iraq.

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

You want an idea about what you can say. I know it sounds like a bad idea but here's specifically why its actually a great one. You want to sound crazy but you want to ask to be right.

Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material.