There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the main characters.

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.

Wake me up from this dream and tell me. Things aren't as bad as they seem.

My little girls are the most beautiful women in the world. I am a lucky, lucky man. I will spend every day making sure that they know this.

I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny.

Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.

I've learned the importance of speaking up for myself and voicing my opinions and my ideas. I'm definitely a shy person.

Love lasts when the relationship comes first

I don't watch penalties in my hotel room. I watch naughty videos

Maybe you are the "cool" generation. If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered up strong visual possibilities.

To be loved means to be recognized as existing.