When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

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.

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

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.