Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out..

One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work..

Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics..

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life..

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man..

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend..

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them..

Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven..

While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. Bu….

If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the….

Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among p….

It's been a long time since I've had champagne..

If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until h….

To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!.

These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they….

I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me..

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams..

Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehe….

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport..

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all..

It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accust….