To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

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.

Real affection does not see anything in terms of 'rights', nor does it even care if it is reciprocated. It merely waits by the door and hopes."From 'A Walking Shadow

Don't grieve over the past, It's all gone!Don't worry about the future, It may never come! Live in the present, And enjoy every moment

Your life is your journey. You have to enjoy it because no one can feel or see it for you.

If there’s any girl in the world more determined than you, I’ve yet to meet her.

I never like to think that I design for a particular person. I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be, and - to some degree - the woman I'm still a little piece of.

I'm fourteen years old; that's almost half-way to thirty. I need my own space.

Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

I experience God as the power of life, the power of love and the ground of being. I don't say that's what God is; I say that's my experience of God.

The only time is Now. All other times - past, present, and parallel - can be accessed in this moment of Now, and may be changed for the better.