Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.
If you were born in a country or at a time not only when nobody comes to kill your wife and your children, but also nobody comes to ask you to kill the wives and children of others, then render thanks to God and go in peace. But always keep this thought in mind: you might be luckier than I, but you’re not a better person.
So what's the most atrocious thing you've seen?" He waved his hand: "Man, of course!
Like translation itself, Asymptote is a fluid web reaching out to all sides, bringing texts and readers together, through the most improbable and marvelous of connections.
If you ever managed to make me cry, my tears would sear your face.
Nowadays, I could not care less about making other people like me. I'm a good person, I don't need to do that anymore.
I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.
Russia, Russia-unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit.
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.