If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.

In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.