A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.

We comes from God, I from the Devil.

The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)

The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

I don't care for the colour of your skin, I care for the size of your heart behind it.

Try to be an influencer rather just being an Entrepreneur.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.

Learning to fully understand the doctrines of the gospel is a process of a lifetime and comes 'line upon line, precept upon precept.

I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.