My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.

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?

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

I've always believed that the only defeats and victories that matter in life are those you lose or win alone, against yourself.

Some people use things; they destroy. You're a creator, a builder.

Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change.

The way you can recognize to what you are committed to is by your actual results. What you have gotten in life is a direct result (good or bad) to what you have been committed to.

Women rule our lives, don't they?

Actors, they come and go, you know.

Men have an easier time buying bathing suits. Women have two types: depressing and more depressing. Men have two types: nerdy and not nerdy.

O leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.