I don't have principles. I have nerves.

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.

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

Certainly no beast has essayed the boundless, infinitely inventive art of human hatred. No beast can match its range and power.

Lost: The common sense of an unconventional dreamer. If found, please return to Love The Stacks.

Even before you've gone anywhere, you feel like you've gone somewhere

We're all blessed and we're all blighted, Chief Inspector, " said Finney. "Everyday each of us does our sums. The question is, what do we count?

But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.

I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities.