Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well.

And it's exactly what's wrong with the radio. It's like...anything that tries to appeal to everybody always ends up sounding so cheap.

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.

The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.

Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it's as simple as loving the way some other person looks when they're sleeping.

The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.

Maybe it was better to just go on believing everything was OK, even when really bad things were just about to happen.

Without love, life is a barren field.

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.

A wise man once said that the opposite of being alive is being boring, so for God’s sake, don’t be boring !

Folks, Russia is perhaps the second most powerful nuclear country in the world. If you don't have dialogue, you have to be fools.

If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and we overdo it.

I'm kind of lazy. I like to lie around with my husband and watch TV and stuff like that.

Guilt is a totally useless emotion. It never makes anyone feel better nor does it change a situation.

The issue is, the Arabs have many allies. Among the worst reactionaries in the world. No religion out of which so much murder comes as there is in certain parts of Islam.

Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.