On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound.

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.

Let us restore trust back to our society

I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".

The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility.

In the past, I would try to control so much, but that's just too stressful, and gives me too much anxiety and worry.

How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?

You might be a redneck if your beer can collection is considered a tourist attraction in your home town.

I don't accept that. I really don't care - I'm going to be like one of these deniers - I don't care what the polls say.

One can only hope the person you love will make you the best version of yourself.

Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.

I don't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk.