People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don’t know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.

When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?

People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don’t know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.

Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of terror. Like an artist, the man creating terror should be detached, cold-blooded. He must keep in mind that the energy of the terror he releases can consume him.

The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.