Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.

If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.

The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.

Her dark hair was scattered and its beauty stung his eyes like smoke and ate into his heart.

Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently.

For life, too, is only an instant, Only the dissolving of ourselvesIn the selves of all othersAs if bestowing a gift –

Dance, Live, Sing, Cry, Love, Travel and Love again, until the day you have to stop

Of course I like to look at pretty girls in the street. What hot-blooded boy doesn't.

My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.

If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.

Don't get so locked in to your overwhelming schedule that you haphazardly spend your soul.

You cannot keep determined people for success.

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

The important thing is that you've got a strong foundation before you start to try to save the world or help other people.

My backside and my privates. I’m stuck so full of prickers, it makes me smart just to think on it.

I'd rather be weird and happy than normal and miserable.