Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing.

Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?

If people are rude in Moscow, at least it's in Russian.

There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase

Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.

We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. We’ve just been to the last stop of this bus.

If Hemingway is to believed, poverty is an invaluable school for a writer. Poverty makes a man clear-sighted. And so on. It's interesting that Hemingway realized this only when he became rich.

Stop thinking. I've stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won't want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy.

It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.

Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

When you hear kids singing your songs it just validates them, they sound like real songs when you hear them back, it's quite refreshing. Like songs that could have been around for a hundred years.

There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother.

I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.

As for myself, there are two things I dread, - death and marriage. I must die, but I need not marry. I have sworn I will never be taken alive.

Instead of using your thoughts, become your thoughts

What can I say about this move? Nothing so I won't.

I just want you that's it. All your flaws, mistakes, smiles, giggles, jokes, sarcasm. Everything. I just want you

If you play good attack, you win the game, but, if you play good defence you win championships