Come to me, wild and untamed. Bring the oceans on your lips, the mountains on your spine; I want to explore all the places you have ever called home. Let me pluck each petal from the gardens you’ve grown, overcrowded seedlings pushing up through your bones. Come to me dipped in the stars, come to me wearing all your scars. I want to show you just how beautiful you are.
Water is the only drink for a wise man.
The point of quotations is that one can use another’s words to be insulting.
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.
Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind.
Injustice in the end produces independence.
All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Hire character. Train skill.
Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.
I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
I’ve also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It’s sure to be a phony.
Some experts believe that somebody is deceiving WikiLeaks, that its reputation is being undermined in order for it to be used for political purposes.
Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
The Leninist antagonism to the most essential features of socialism was evident from the very start. Lenin and Trotsky, upon assuming power, immediately devoted themselves to destroying the liberatory potential of Soviets and factory committees.
Many people – and I think I am one of them – are more productive when they’ve had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I’m far better able to write.
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
