I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.

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.

Most humans expressed affection by pressing their lips together, a simple act, so why would anyone feel the need to research the process?

I always try to keep in mind the I do all that training for a reason, which is to compete to the best of my ability.

Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.

Live authentically. Live your truth. And if you love me for anything, love me because I live mine.

The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations.

The Autumn seems to cry for thee,Best lover of the Autumn-days!

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.

I don’t want to achieve my dream. I just want to pursue my dream until I die.

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.