Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.

I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone?

The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.

A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.