It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself.

Every child ought to know the light of knowledge.

When it come to creative inspiration, job titles and hierarchy are meaningless.

Oh how I had underestimated tender kisses.

We end up treating life the way we see fit

In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face.

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.

I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.

Nobody ever asks a man how he gets stuff done. Nobody asks a man how he finds balance.

Maybe they have nothing else to do in America but to talk about me.