A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it is clear and does not detain one's attention. On the other hand, it is difficult to figure out and hard on the brain if I write: "The tall, narrow-chested man of medium height and with a red beard sat down on the green grass that had already been trampled down by the pedestrians, sat down silently, looking around timidly and fearfully." The brain can't grasp all that at once, and art must be grasped at once, instantaneously.

You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.

Brevity - the sister of talent.

In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yetappeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.