Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

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.

You must not make hasty decisions because they make you do what you would not have done normally

Red sky at night, the city's alight.

A scar isn't about the injury, it's about the healing.

I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that good.

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.

Every man knows the smell of his own fart.

When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.

Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.

I'm a really, really, smart, multi-talented almost-genius, who's very annoying.