It's what we call a dolce pazzia... a sweet madness. Once you feel it, you will never want to leave it.

I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.

Only weak men want women to be weak.

I’ll be back tomorrow,” he said, “at nine o’clock. Don’t open your door to anyone else.” “Not even my balcony door?” “Especially not your balcony door.

By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.

Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.

Peppo!" I yelled, pulling at my cousin's suspenders. "I really don't want to be arrested, okay?" "Don't worry!" Peppo turned a corner and accelerated as he spoke. "I go too fast for police!

You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.

Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.

We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.

When the old men fight, the young people die.

The good company counts in your life, make a right choice because bad company will eat you alive.

...they ain't never met nobody they didn't lie to and steal from.

The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death

When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.

Become a legend? But I am already.

Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.' 'No.' 'It might be important.' 'It might make her die.

How can you have a dead service with a living Christ?

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

It is no easy task to overcome the bitter legacy of injustices, hostility and mistrust left by the conflict. It can only be done by overcoming evil with good.

My mom calls me 'baby face.' It's very embarrassing.