Only the rational and useful is beautiful.

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

Her smile was a bite, and I was its target.

The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...

Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.