Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man's recognition of hisown negative potential--with his sense of what he is capable of.

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.

You must live the life of your dreams.

The hours spool out like a ribbon I can't find the end of.

Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.

Thank God there aren't 1.6 billion Trumps.

For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.

What's interesting about my project recently is that I'm going out into broader global spaces but then isolating at the same time - sort of pushing out but then pulling in.

There is no greater pleasure than having a dog. And that's a scientific fact!

Through love, all pain will turn to medicine.

I feel like there are very few times in your life when you know what you have when you have it.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.