Geography blended with time equals destiny.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything.

It has been my personal experience that the government engages in a wide range of frauds with the common people.

Grow past your past and march past the flag of the past!

One does not need to be a good fighter to put up a good fight.

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

The movie industry had it better in the '30s and '40s, in terms of gender equality, than it does now, both in payment and in job ratios. It's ludicrous. Are we in the modern world, or what?

Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin to rust. Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant

Nature admits no lie.

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.