I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.

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.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

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.

Kindness is the best wisdom. Simplicity is the best achievement.

Because change creates opportunity, when we do it through purpose and awareness, we are working with the fates, and in turn they smile upon us.

Things, since you left, have not gone well with me: they have taken me from a place where there was gin to a place where there is no gin[.]

From my point of view, I always want to fight until the end of my last chance.

The middleweight division is one of the most exciting divisions in the sport. Fighters can punch like heavyweights and have the speed of the lightweights. You have the best of world worlds.

3. When he smiles at you, sometimes you feel like crying.

Life is what you make it... and nowhere close to making mine the best it can be.

Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.