'Gari' in Russian means "burn!"... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my 'I' is burned off.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

...the only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in

I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.

As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

I always look towards the light of my desires, so I never forget where I'm going.

politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

Money chases good ideas

There was nothing better than the feel of a book in your hand, listening to the crinkling sounds as you turned its pages and the smell of its crisp paper.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

I find teenage girls endlessly funny.

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.

If you just focus on the smallest details, you will never get the big picture right.

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.