Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.

Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.

Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.

I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it's difficult to tame the beast in oneself.

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.

Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.