What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing; it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism.

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.

You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.

To enjoy a peaceful & Beautiful Life We should open our 'EYE' and Close our 'I

Good enough never is

We must have infinite faith in each other.

I wasn't putting too much emphasis on it (the booing). I think that you have to put it behind you.

That outgrowth of arrogance comes at a price: some people don't like is. I take responsibility for that.

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

There's always an added element of a poem when it's read aloud because then you can really hear the rhythm, and the cadence, and even the pronunciation sometimes adds another layer to the poem.

Perseverance brings good luck.

The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.