Changing my name was traumatic for me.

I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.

Time is about the need to control. Let go of control and embrace what happens.

I have never worn a watch. I did at 17 and it annoyed me.

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.

I am so longing to be domestic, , cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

it does not count a day if you do not learn something new from it, its not nice to become old in years while your true age is only a few days

And... a bed. A bed and a blanket to cover them, a blanket that was theirs together.

I'm not very disciplined. I tend to write late at night because I get distracted during the day.

Persevere and get it done.

The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?

Determine to pray more words over your marriage than you speak about your marriage.

One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party

Everybody remembers what it's like to be in high school. We really never leave those years behind.

One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.