Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

We comes from God, I from the Devil.

The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)

The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.

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

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")

I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I just try to think about the future and not be sad

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.

Although you can download all the productivity apps in the world (and I have), no app will make you care about what you have to do like the Rule of 3. The rule is dead s

Sometimes it's better to end something & try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible.

I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards.

True hustlers are prepared to get hustled and know when to change positions and move to something different and aren't afraid.

Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.

I love my music and recording people.

Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.