I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.

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.

Products come with a WARNING label that reveals what they are made of. People come with one too

Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm.

He knows not where he's going, For the ocean will decide, Its not the destination, It's the glory of the ride

They should rule who are able to rule best.

I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.

When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.

Don't sleep through your dreams.

I like playing that character who brings love to people, who puts people in a place where they're apt to encounter love.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.