Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

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.

In marriage, the man and woman must complement each other.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

I accept full responsibility for what I wrote and apologize to everyone who was offended.

I used to love going fishing. I think it was really about the clothes. Nothing says real man like a vest with 38 pockets and a mesh hat with hooks in it.

Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America.

Next time you're about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.

I think the less fracking there is, the better it is for the economy and society.

It's not the outer appearance that matters, it's what's inside.

To Contemplation's sober eye. / Such is the race of Man.

Chinas development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.