When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.

To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.

Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.

There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.

By means of art we are sometimes sent-dimly, briefly-revelations unattainable by reason.

Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations.

"... It's not what but how that matters in art." K-123 jumped up and banged his fist on the table. "No! Your how can go to hell if it doesn't raise the right feelings in me!"