I don't have a thing, " Tengo said, "except my soul.""Sounds like a job for Mephistopheles, " she said.

You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.

To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried to escape from Russia, the more deeply Russia swallowed them.

It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one’s hearing to it.....The silence seemed to be trying to tell him something about itself.

So, why do you write these strong female characters?Because you’re still asking me that ques

Even though God rules in the affairs of men, yet the earth is not God’s jurisdiction.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

It's a mystery why certain people find certain things funny.

To enjoy the world without judgment is what a realized life is like.

If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story

Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.

I am busy with my work. My path is clear.

Good shoulders and a long waist are the most necessary when it comes to wearing clothes.