Of all the parts of your body, be most vigilant over your index finger, for it is blame-thirsty. A pointed finger is a victim’s logo.

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.

Never doubt who you are!

The duality of positive and negative becomes subsumed in Oneness. There are no opposites in the totality and absolute perfection of the Oneness that we know as Divine.

Makebelieve is a writer's best friend.

Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

The Sopranos was the first show about the life of the writer. I never made any secret about the fact that it was about my mother.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

A politician should not be written off till he or she is cremated.

When they die, no one will ever know that they lived on this earth.

I will always play "Stand Back" anyway. And Prince will always he standing behind me every time I do.