This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to read poetry, seems to be dangerous if not tragic.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

Self-expression is an important requirement if you desire to make giant leaps in your career.

An arena large as Europe Silent waiting the contest

When you first think of making a monster movie you have to realize that a lot of people may be down on you because there is a big prejudice against such films.

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage.

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

Fearless people are interesting to watch.

I won’t die like this again. (Zarek) Backbone. How I love it. But not as much as I love sucking the marrow from it. (Thanatos)

Fate has me highly skilled and loaded with talent.