Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

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

I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.