It's difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just roll over and do other things.

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.

Bran had heard his brother's mate Fia call Keelin one of the great beauties of the dragon race and it was true. Dressed in what he considered battle gear, Keelin was a wet dream come to life.

It feels like you're being invited into a kind of community [working with the Coen brothers].

I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans.

Power is of an encroaching nature.

...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.

It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.

Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.

I want people to have a good time. Its boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.

I speak to people in the languagethey understand. First I have a dialogue, if that is not understood I speak inanother language. There is no remedy for this.

But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we're going to spend.