The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

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.

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.

It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.

Forgiveness is the best revenge.

I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.

Jack turned to Cameron. "Do you just line them up, waiting to yell at me, on the off chance I'll stop by?

You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.

God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

I have the greatest fans in the world. I love them.. All of them, I really do.

A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.

We have already provided a strong humanitarian response to the problems in the Middle East and that response will be stronger within coming days.