Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

You know you are changing when you no longer have points of references. Mapping a new life.

Maybe his nightmare had been about me.

When Celtic get an opportunity to go above Rangers they've got to jump at it with both hands.

I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.

I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.

I have flown ValuJet. ValuJet is a safe airline, as is our entire aviation system.

To have and to want more that is life.

All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.

The world exists for the sake of kindness.