If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.

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.

Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity.

You don't have to fake your lifestyle to be relevant. You are already a perfect creation from God. Be proud of your true self.

Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being.

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

the first part was awesome the second part were gross but still amazing to me

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Germany may have recovered a flying saucer as early as 1939

You grow more when you get more people's perspective.

Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

There's very few dork movies made by dorks.