Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.

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

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

Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.