Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.

Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?

Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing.

If people are rude in Moscow, at least it's in Russian.

There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase

We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. We’ve just been to the last stop of this bus.

If Hemingway is to believed, poverty is an invaluable school for a writer. Poverty makes a man clear-sighted. And so on. It's interesting that Hemingway realized this only when he became rich.

Stop thinking. I've stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won't want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy.

Measure your life not by years but by adventures.

To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you

I know thy works that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.

Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.

I don't think I'm particularly beautiful at all.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.