I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances

Your advice seems a little ironical.""Oh, you may either follow it or reverse it—that is its chief beauty. It is equally good taken either way.

You may be ableto fly to heaven with my love.But for real, my love is onlya cheap wine.Seriously, Only God’s love is the precious wine.And She evengives it to everyone.For free!

Only a clear, focused, and common mission can hold the organization together and enable it to produce results.

God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.

You can't just make me different, and the leave. Because I was fine before.

I would rather have played a character like Opie than Little Ricky.

The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.