what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about

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")

The worst thing about being perfect is that you can't make mistakes.

A good book is a man's best friend. It never leaves you even in your darkest hour.

Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.

Art should become as one with its surroundings.

My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.

Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy.

Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?