You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

I'm drunk but truthful.

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.

Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.