The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

An unrested mind is prone to wander into unfruitful avenues

Dreamers have a territorial seed in them that give them the power to possess, to dominate and to influence the world.

politicians often had the knack of seeming to know everyone intimately. Either they had remarkable memories, or their secretaries reminded them efficiently.

The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war.

I want to reach for 150 or 200 points this season, whichever comes first.

If we are at peace with God and our own conscience, what enemy among men need we fear?

When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.

Too busy thinking about my baby and I ain't got time for nothing else.

You know the disease, you know the remedy, only have faith.

You shouldn't feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven't tasted, but for the one you are about to lose