If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

Even in Siberia there is happiness.

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

If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.