Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning..

Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is..

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass..

Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self..

It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment..

You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a problem and the correc….

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why..

In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yetappeared, he should….

A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other..

In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit..

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them..

When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a ….

You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know..

I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept t….

I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly ….

Write, write, write-till your fingers break..

Even in Siberia there is happiness..

Women can't forgive failure..

Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy..

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses..

Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of the dece….