My mind cannot grasp forever, " she told him. "There must surely be an end somewhere. But the big question is-what it beyond the end?

And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.

But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.

The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.

One who has conquered every aspect of his pain except the deepest.

Most men will not swim before they are able to.

Not much happens in Russian Federation without Vladimir Putin.

If you love people, you'll enjoy your life. If you don't, you won't love anything you do.

I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more.

It's my job to turn my mess [life] into a message and never regret a day of my life.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.

Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal.

Meditation is the way to individuality. It makes you a light unto yourself.

Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.