If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.

Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.