The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.

Don't be fooled by your own wisdom

Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.

You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!

Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.