How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives .

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention.

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.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture and the people. They've been stolen from the people and now the stolen things are being returned to their owners, but I don't think their owners should be grateful to receive them.