“All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do”

“When it is easier to do wrong, it is harder to do right, but best to not do nothing at all.”

“People who are skilled at dialogue do their best to make it safe for everyone to add their meaning to the shared pool--even ideas that at first glance appear controversial, wrong, or at odds with their own beliefs. Now, obviously they don't agree with every idea; they simply do their best to ensure that all ideas find their way into the open.”

“Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art. . . . Someone on the internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before: make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and it doesn’t even matter. Do what only you can do best: make good art.”

“You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.”

“A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness, both of phrase and expression, that compels belief in their sincerity.”