Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

I was a coward. I went to the war.

I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

They would repair the leaks in their eyes.

I hated him for making me stop hating him

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.

Zapped while zipping.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, except there's still this sound you can't hear.

Stories can save us.

Stories are for joining the past to the future.

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

We are all tips of the iceberg.

And I suppose you know who Magnus’ father is?” Luke said.“I paid a lot of money once to find it out, ” Raphael said.

Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!

There's no rhyme or reason to how I dress.

The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.

All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

The expression on my face - who on earth would be interested in that? All that I have to say is to be found in my works. (On being photographed)

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.

Progress is the ultimate motivation.