Your sorrow will become smaller, like a star in the daylight that you can't even see. It's there, shining, but there is also a vast expanse of blue sky.

Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft.

In a novel, you'll find yourself in a world of possibilities. You'll find shelter there.

For man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and mind detached from the sense objects is the cause of liberation.

Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company - and so talk goes out through the lips.

Learn from your mistakes but expect your enemies to learn from theirs.

"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable."

Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.

I always wanted to be one of those people who were good at many, many things, but from a very early age, I fell in love with acting.

No matter what you do, you're going to have people who have something to say about something you do. You can't please anybody.

I’m sick and tired of life with no desire. I don’t want a flame, I want a fire.

I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image.

It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.