I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.

You hurt me. It’s OK. I just want you to be happy.

There was no echo, no reverberation. If anything the room ate sound. It swallowed her voice, her words, and her eternal, inadequate apology. But not her memories. She would never be rid of those.

Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.

It's not good enough to just know what to say about the policy; it's really important to take the extra step to learn the policy, to be able to understand it, and articulate it.

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.

Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation to enter where silence once ruled.

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.