It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.

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.

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.

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")

I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice--to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything.

And I'm probably wrong. Maybe not completely, but partially. And maybe not today, but eventually.

Lying is a thriving vocation.

Do not fight for your rights on streets. Do it elegantly within you!

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.

Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?

If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.

Cloud bounded along the earth like a ball

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.