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

“Being unique - be yourself, only so you'll distinguish yourself out of the ''grey'' and motionless reality. Train positive perception of the surrounding things.”

“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.”

“Forever my light shines on you brightly;Love from above, I will send to you nightly.”

“I shouldn't have taken a vow of silence, I told myself. What did I want? Nothing much. Just a memorial. But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured...”

“But who can remember pain, once its over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

“I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In lif...”

“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely ...”

“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.”

“In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls generations that ...”

“So you would kill Old Ireland? Anna Livia said. You would kill yourself, for without Old Ireland, you wouldnt be.”