The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

I am the soul in limbo.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.

Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

I can’t get her out of my head

But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive. from 'The Fallen Kings.

I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.

There's no point apologizing about where you come from.

Carry your groceries, garden, and do other activities that keep you moving. You will add more years to your life and more life to your years.

I don't really like discussions about a supposed Russian national character.

Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.

If you don't have both of them working together in a complementary, cohesive way, you're not going to be successful.

If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.