The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

It is never a mistake to say good-bye.

The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.

The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see

For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.

Be fruitful, and multiply.