There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.

Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

Survival is triumph enough.

Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.

That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much.

Make love and kindness toward yourself and others a lifestyle and not a special event

The tonal leads the way. You have to have a methodology.

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

Your preoccupation should be on doing what you do as well as you can.

Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.

Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.

I love kids, and I'm great with them, but I also love being able to give them back.

The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends

Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.