It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.

Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.

we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.

Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.

Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy.

[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.