I didn't want to be either the cre'me de la cre'me or a martyr. I'd rather be a novelty, especially in a democracy that doesn't understand the language I write in.

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.

Be truthful.Be presentable.Be tactical.Be profitable.

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.

Sachin is the greatest player I have seen. I consider it an honour to have rubbed shoulders with him

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos.

To snatch the passing moment and examine it for signs of eternity is the noblest of occupations.

He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.

After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.