It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

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.

If nothing else, a house is a place to keep books in.

In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.

All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.

I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn.

You fit me better than my favorite sweater.

I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

For a shining mind and a shining body, you need nature, not gilding or silvering!

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

The truth is, I was always picky anyway.

Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.