Individual consciousness is just sickness.

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")

Summer and the laugh of my daughter make me believe in god.

The reason is that Chile is the brightest spot in Latin America. It has very fast growth, low unemployment. It privatized its Social Security system, which we in USA were unable to do.

We carry in our worlds that flourish, our worlds that have failed.

The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

Inflation is not only unnecessary for economic growth. As long as it exists it is the enemy of economic growth.

I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.

Little said is soon amended.

Without art there is no hope.