I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer out of him.

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.

Show me what you've written, " I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer.

He tastes like mint and posession and fire.

Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.

there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.

The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

Considering the alternative. . . it's not too bad at all.

I didn't get the Russian Jew part because they didn't think I looked Russian or Jewish enough - and, mind you, I am both Russian and Jewish - so I was cast as the racist Mexican.

Work hard for your goals and live in the moment.