As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of state.

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.

Life is about exercising your God-given dominion, loving and serving God, loving and serving mankind and fulfilling the unique and specific God-given purpose

A word in season is most precious.

I think it's a lot richer than what we call fleshy improv, I think it's very funny, puppet improv and fleshy improv.

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.

I think Trent Baretta looks like Ashton Kutcher.

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

Love not Pleasure; love God.