Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.

You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.

And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.

Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.

Men die. It's practically what they're for.

First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.

In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.

No, not like this, when I have not seen you without your skin on, when I know nothing, when I am not safe. Not you, whose name all my nightmares know.

I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.

It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.

...but the tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time.

There is only one Saviour, the Lord JESUS CHRIST.

Stephen Hawking asks, 'what did God do before he created the Universe?' Answer: He created Nothing

Simplicity is boring, but i still love it.

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

Anyone who finds himself putting down several commas close to one another should reflect that he is making himself disagreeable.

The Chilean novelist Isabel Allende says there's no such thing as writer's block, you just need to live a bit more. I try to bear that in mind.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Sorry to interrupt myself, but it's the only way I stop talking.

The best founders work on things that seem small but they move really quickly. They get things done really quickly.