Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.

If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.