Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

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.

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

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

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of myth, of a mythic home, the mythic womb?

Nothing is 'just' anything with you

Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.

I think I'd want to have an affair with a Montgomery but marry a Taggert.

Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.

I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.

Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose.

Since seeing Max Kirsten for insomnia - I'm finally achieving a good night's sleep, its just wonderful. He's my new secret weapon!

Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity; Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.