...maybe you think up North is way different from down South. Don't believe it and don't count on it. Custom is just as real as law and can be just as dangerous.

Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.

The journey may be fraught with challenges, yet it continues, for even the smallest leaf must embrace destiny...Persistence is the key...

In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.

I taught myself Russian, which was very, very useful, especially for poetry and in fact if you can't read Pushkin in Russian, you're really missing something.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.

To be amazing means you have to do amazing things.

Life's too short for anxious score-keeping

I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.