So when I saw you lying in the shed there, I thought that even God couldn't be that cruel. You were everything I ever asked for – so maybe you could also be the love of my life...

There should be no restlessness within, no matter what the circumstances. If there is restlessness within, know that the kashays have not left yet.

I trust the Universe Implicitly, therefore my experience is happening FOR me and not TO me. I trust the Universe. I trust the process.

I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all.

I write anywhere - when I have an idea it’s hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn’t be disturbed, it really filled my day.

Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.

Let's liquidate all the atomic bases in Cuba and in the U.S. and we are in complete agreement with that.

You're gonna get what's good, you're gonna get what the generals and what the admirals and what - and the enlisted and they'll - we'll get together, we wanna get the right stuff.

Midterms are always hard. And the midterm in a two-term president's second term is especially hard.

If Rome gets to decide everything for the north and for the south, it's not a good and just thing.

Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.