I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.

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.

I thank Him every chance I get - on my knees praying.

It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .

The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.

Nothing clears a troubled mind better than shooting a bow.

If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.

If you've got just a little bit of faith as a grain of mustard seed, and begin to praise God - that faith will mount up, until fear won't be able to stay in your heart.

My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.

Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying.