They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.

He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.

Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

One is attracted to beauty. Beauty is the coordination of things, in such a way, that it is what attracts you. It's almost self-defining.

The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.

And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait for someone to return, and the story to unfold.

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.

And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful.

And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between.

Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.

If I have a theological virtue, it is curiosity or inquisitiveness.

Decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.

Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.

You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman.

Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.

Everytime we say that god is the author of some phenomenon, that signifies that we are ignorant of how such a phenomenon was caused by the forces of nature.

All I have to do is play football now.