The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.

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.

The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces.

It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can.

One of the sweetest things about success is that no one else has to believe in your abilities for your dream to come true.

Oh my great hope, all things are possible if you have the right knowledge

Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.

If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done comedy.

I generally think debates within a party should not be treated as a scandal. They should be treated as a sign of strength, to be honest.

All of the important things ... will turn out to be universally shared. It's why there will be no true aliens.

Faith is powerful spiritual dynamic, and it is something God responds to and blesses.