My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness.

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.

She tossed a handful of snow at his face, then shrieked as the wind whipped it back into her own.Red hooted. "Karma's a boomerang, sweetheart. Don't forget it.

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

I'm a chronic relapser. I guess I always will be.

Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?

I believe we have breaks because we need them. So my suggestion is that you take the break. Eat chocolate.

And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.

The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.

I'd rather people love me or hate me than have no opinion of me. Indifference is scary.

I was in rare fettle and the heart had touched a new high. I don't know anything that braces one up like finding you haven't got to get married after all.

patience is an integral part of talent.