What's happening in Russia is devoid of autobiographical interest for me. Maybe it's egocentric. Whatever it is, feel free to use it.

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.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

I won't raise taxes, because I do not want to punish the people for the politicians' mistakes.

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.

We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

Take your materials from what is around you - if you see a dandelion, write about that; if it's misty, write about the mist. The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion.

I didn't have a big fat Greek wedding, but I have a lot of fat Greek friends.

Scrap doesn't come for free, we pay someone to make it.

I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.