He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.

There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.

To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.