“It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.”

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

I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

Brevity – the sister of talent.

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

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.

I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

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 whole barrel.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.

It spills from my fingers faster than ink can flow – feelings too strong to contain, emotions that demand to be felt.

Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.

The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.

River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.

Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.

My aura is psychedelic, flow non-prehistoric metamorphic boric like acid no hat tricks a classic so park that ass like Jurassic

In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.