If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.

Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The stupider they are, the wider they conceive their horizons to be. And if an artist decides to declare that he understands nothing of what he sees - this in itself constitutes a considerable clarity in the realm of thought, and a great step forward.

Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.