Stop thinking. I've stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won't want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy.

Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?

Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing.

If people are rude in Moscow, at least it's in Russian.

There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase

Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.

We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. We’ve just been to the last stop of this bus.

If Hemingway is to believed, poverty is an invaluable school for a writer. Poverty makes a man clear-sighted. And so on. It's interesting that Hemingway realized this only when he became rich.

And so the Universe ended.

May God grant you a great grace to live the fullness of life in the coming year.

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

Only you can find yourself by losing yourself again and again in the deep darkness of your driving desires.

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.

Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.

I don't look so much for tips. But when they interview a Nicklaus or a Palmer, I'm all ears. I listen to guys who have done it, been successful for years.

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

Your style is the way you talk in paint.

Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.