I got caught up in the proletariat the way Marx describes it.

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.

Man is, that he may have Joy.

I tried to tell you. You said you didn't care, remember?"A muscle ticked below his eye. "You should have told me anyway.""While you had barbells within your reach? Please. I'm Disease, not Stupid.

I didn't have anything to apologize for.

Being an ex-child star is not a given.

I see where America is going, and it's not good. It's really bad.

The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.

The smith and his penny both are black.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most likely never return that call?

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions.