Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.

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.

When I'm sleeping I do a lot of living.

Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions.

I don't think about my mom when I'm onstage. I just don't really think about my kids when I'm working, and when we press stop and I walk outside, they're the first things I think about.

Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting worse or if your perspective shifts.

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

There is one thing we must appreciate about the disasters: They are perfectly just when they do their jobs!

Stress the thought of plenty. Thoughts of plenty help create plenty.

People really do spend a lot of money on their pets - sometimes more then themselves.

Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart.

The only way to coast is downhill.