The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

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.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

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

Flight of my mind rises beneath the seagull’s wings …then ocean is my motherland I feel.

Mythology was littered with people who meddled in the affairs of elves and fairies and were never again heard from.

Dad has shamelessly played the Mom card. Against which there is no defense.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

Italy is only a geographical expression.

My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.

If you could just be nice, then you wouldn't have to worry about arguments at all. but being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.