Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.

To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

I live within the world of books.

That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening.

If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, "You can't do this. Write an op-ed."

If it's not broken, tinker with it till you find out how it works.

Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies.

He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.

Half is not enough protection, half is my fault and half is them just doing a good job. I know it's 150 percent, but I'm a little tired now.

You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.

It's hard for young people to understand when you tell them how great relationships are.

Obama has wreaked a lot of damage on America already, and there will be more. There's gonna be more to come.