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

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.

It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The stupider they are, the wider they conceive their horizons to be. And if an artist decides to declare that he understands nothing of what he sees - this in itself constitutes a considerable clarity in the realm of thought, and a great step forward.