When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both.

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.

Never waste an unsaid word of praise and never praise the said words of anger.

Messi or Ronaldo best player in the world? In the world, I would say Ronaldo. Messi is from another planet.

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.

To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

Give young people a chance, our generation may just surprise you.

My wife is so stupendously ugly it is easier to take her with me than to kiss her goodbye.

The green shoots of economic spring are appearing once again.

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy.

There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this.