When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.
To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.
Even in Siberia there is happiness.
Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is towrite, and only to write.