“Nowadays it's more beneficial to act like a mutt, than understand reality.”

“I'm enormously afraid of one inevitable and trivial thing - that one day I'll simply cease to exist.”

“Perhaps somebody has alredy written it. But I want to write a story from the end till the very beginning.”

“Personally I know only one person who wrote about utopia. Afterwards he was executed. I suppose it's not my genre.”

“Endeavour to explore the surrounding world, try to do your best and jump over you head, only in that case you'll achieve a result.”

“I am such a person who rots without the mental activity.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.”

“when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury-- the...”

“Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.”

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”