Hope is a delicate thing. A dangerous thing.

-I'm your girlfriend?- "No." Alexei shakes his head, then pulls me to him again, holds me closer. "There's not a word in either of our language for what you are to me".

Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses.

Was it really right to look the way he did? His prominent nose was altogether too immodest for his humble position in life

I'll never get over the factthat the buildings all light up at night, and the night comes every nightand without regret we let it go.We sleep a little and we live.That's what we do.

Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil.

Baking is too precise for me. I cook with a pinch of this or that.

Look, if you think your need to complain is more important than the lives of the people that are counting on us, go whine somewhere else!

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

Do everything you need to do to keep the passion alive and never forget that it is a privilege to do what you love.

The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd.

The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.