“I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.”
“When I get back to L.A. I'm going to buy myself a Blackberry and a slew of French-cuffed shirts. Possibly a nipple ring.”
“Now I knew how women felt when they thought they were going to get a diamond ring and ended up with an onion ring”
“Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only the thing itself. from the book, On Retranslating A Russian Classic Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy”
“Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go;Ring out the false, ring in the true.”
“I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.”