To write has to be related to a drive inside.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

You are born to love and live

You rarely get closure when you leave something unknown.

On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.

Even a baby can write a poem. It doesn't guarantee the sale.

No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.

The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

I have always liked knives. Then somebody gave me one. Then somebody gave me another one. Then I liked having them and started buying them. I started finding ones I liked, ones with funky blades.

Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.