Our true passions are selfish.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

He was too gorgeous for words and worst yet he knew it.

You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.

We loved being in Russia and would love to go back again, especially to visit my namesake

Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.

We went to the moon and discovered Earth.

I like to play with people who can play simple and are not threatened by other musicians thinking they can't play. And that eliminates 99 percent of the musicians.

Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.

Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.