What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

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.

The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.

Open your wings, fly toward the sky To live in your dream, even if it is high

Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH!And look around ...can you blame us?!

Jumping Jehoshaphat. O Holy Night.

I love Mexican food, and there's a really good restaurant called El Parador that I love.

I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.

My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.

If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.

I think that the only ultimate guide we have is our conscience, and if the law of the land goes against our conscience I think we should disobey the law.

If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.