Our two peoples have stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the brotherhood of blood spilled.
'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
The past is always tense, the future perfect.
Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.
Time is how you spend your love.
Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.
Stress will either drive you crazy or drive you to your knees. It depends on who is in control of your life.
The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z. ' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side.
Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it's invested well, it'll generate a lot of economic growth, and we'll get quite a bit of the revenues back.