You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.

And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign — the divine minus.

The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn to, no one to turn to it. All it can do is ache across the weightless airy ice, across thousands of versts, toward those who are equally lonely on earth, and listen to the endless howling of dogs. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?" and "What next?".

The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.

The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.