Our relationship felt like a Christmas gift that you hadn’t asked for and weren’t expecting to receive, but the minute you saw it, you knew it was perfect for you.

Literature wasn’t intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws.

Because I couldn't bear my burden and have come to throw it on another: you suffer too, and I shall feel better! And can you love such a mean wretch?

You know." he said, resting the fiddle in his lap, "once you love something enough--enough to let it consume you completely--it becomes part of you, even when it's buried and quiet.

The faster you go the more chance there is of stubbing your toe but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

My home is in Moscow and I have no plans to change this.

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life.

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

Is Europe a home for an alliance of civilizations or is it a Christian club? If the former is true, then Turkey should be part of it.

I know where he should have put his flag up, and he'd have got plenty of help. (said at Stamford Bridge)