Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.

Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I refuse to howl.

I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps, Of two dark moons.

My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.

I am a moonbeam, free to go whenever I choose.

Think about me lightly, think of me, and forget.

Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Kent had begun sleeping with his good eye open, for he knew the mark of sedition when he saw it. Even partway blinded, who could see it better?

It's quite unfortunate how some people would like you when you are barely making ends meet, but would hate you with a passion if you start to do well.

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience.

If my legs are showing, the makeup artist adds a tiny amount of foundation to body lotion and rubs it in.

Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.

I pursue no intentions, no directions; I have no program, no style and no mission.

Sometimes you sacrifice legibility to increase impact.

I feel like a cliche.

To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.