Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.

My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind. We need to protect artists and journalists people to allow them to work.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.