The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.

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")

When the competent men of the system are compelled to quit, the system will soon quit itself.

America: A place where Realists have the freedom to be Idealists.

Don't wait for the perfect moment, take the moment and make it perfect.

Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.

Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.

I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.

Oh, come on. I have to know about the who-do voodoo that you do. (Nick)

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country.