Truth in the heart of heresy

I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.

Make me immortal with a kiss.

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.

What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?

He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.

Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.

Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it's my passion, my love and it's a part of me.

You can analyze all you want but you can never explain away the God factor. Sometimes God just decides to breathe on something and it's completely His prerogative.

Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.

As a professional journalist, I am always looking for new ways to get paid for being motionless.

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described as a community of scholars.

A book's flaws make it less predictable.

When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.

Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.