A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or given to lies; whether he is an ambitious man. One should define oneself first of all in those terms, and only then in terms of culture, race, creed.

I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly.

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.