I am closest of all to happiness—although I won’t attempt to define just what it is—when I turn away from the window and am aware, with the edge of m…

- Victor Pelevin

Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that names are the only things that exist in the world. Maybe that's true, but the problem is that as time passes by, n…

- Victor Pelevin

There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly conc…

- Victor Pelevin

How can non-existence get sick of itself? Everytime you wake up, you appear again out of nowhere. And so does everything else. Death just means the r…

- Victor Pelevin

When it comes to radical youth culture nothing sells better than neatly packaged and politically correct rage against the world where everything is p…

- Victor Pelevin

The author's opinions do not necessarily coincide with his point of view.

- Victor Pelevin

IsoldA: The only way to be alone is to behave as though we are alone already.

- Victor Pelevin

There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the tr…

- Victor Pelevin

Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life of a long-distance truck d…

- Victor Pelevin