“There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.”

Without literature, life is hell.

Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.

Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.

If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.

Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.

Only the boring get bored.

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

We must bring our own light to the darkness.

Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time. Neither works.

You can’t become a billionaire stepping over children sleeping on the street.

A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia.

I don’t really give into all that philosophical talks that ‘money is not everything.

It is easier to ask for money when you don’t need the money.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.

Airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.