O God, do not leave me. I have done nothing good in Your sight, but according to Your goodness, let me now make a beginning of good.

Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.

I have often repented of having spoken, but never of having been silent.

Brethren, the just man shall scarcely be saved. What, then, will become of the sinner?

There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.

A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.

Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand...

Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.

You shouldn't read so much, you'll get a brain tumor.

Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system.

I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.

The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

My job was to find stocks that were undervalued.