Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met on the internet.

It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

The most stupid religion is Islam.

Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

I felt somewhat like a fire hydrant – with everyone marking their territory around me.

Sometimes the guys who look the most normal are the biggest pervs of all.

I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.

When one steals a flying balloon and animates it to fly over Paris, one should, ideally, have some idea how said balloon normally works.

Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.

Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.

If I were asked to give the best idea of which I am capable, it would be that we should get out of the junk business and then start laying up treasures in heaven.

War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.