When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

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

Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals.

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.