I always felt awkward and unfinished, unworthy of love, suspicious of affection offered. My mother's absence became a great presence in my life.

One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward.

In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.

Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil?

There are few persons to whom truth is not a sort of insult.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year.... Today should always be our most wonderful day.

I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we remember.

You have to first experience what you want to express