The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.

It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.

An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.