His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.

Radically accept, release and allow suffering to move through you like a passing storm.

Lie to yourself, not to someone else

Many Russia experts note the deep and sad capacity of the Russian people for suffering.

As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.

I love the United States. I have applied for citizenship. I want to take the oath of allegiance on TV.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe.

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well