This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

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.

Then it was silent. Heavy now, not the sleepy silence of before. The kind of silence that meant horrifying things.

If you're sad about what you see in the mirror when you wake up every morning, you must change it.

There's always a project around, but you have to pick and choose.

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.

I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

That's why I'm so successful because peace is my main thing, it's not about money. It's about making sure everybody is having a good time and loving and living and enjoying life.