To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

Just being with Nakajima made me feel as if we were detached from history, and had no particular age.

Is there any purity like prayer?

Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.

I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.

Even the presence of my kids cannot, during those writing hours, disturb me. Unless there's a bone sticking out of their arm, I'm not interested.

I look at her wish we could go inside and make love on the couch. Dive inside each other. Take each other. Make each other. Nothing happens, though.

I think what I listen to now is what I listened to as a kid which is kind of black American soul. I love soul music.

You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.