Man is what he reads.

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.

In the midst of the apparent diversity of human affairs, a certain number of primary facts may be discovered, from which all others are derived.

I hate to read books but a friend said he read the dictionary and that the Zebra did it.

I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come!

The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, lets be honest.

If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet.

The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.

Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.

I'm a Prada freak and I think they have great eyewear. Even though I don't need glasses, I use them as a fashion accessory.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.