Insanity is a gradual process - don't rush it.

Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...

They who await no gifts from chance have conquered fate.

I'd searched everywhere for this thing called love. I went through life seeking something that would be the ultimate.

There are two words for everything.

Keep on shining, keep on smiling, don't lose faith, and don't lose heart. When you're crying, just keep trying to remind yourself, you're a shining star, yes you are.

Your love is a fierce thing, Elena, a thing with claws and teeth when it comes to protecting those you claim.

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better.

Let the story tell itself.

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.