I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

You need to have faith and trust, Moira.""And a little bit of pixie dust?

Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior.

Leadership is the ability to make things happen.

There is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love.

The character of God is an unchanging Northstar five which to find our way through a world of moral complexity.

He is at home with his solitude as the note reverberating inside a bell.

I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work.

If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would've been like Woodstock.

The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

I am a subject, And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me, And therefore personally I lay my claim To my inheritance of free descent.