There Are Worse Crimes Than

The Surest Defense Against Evil Is Extreme Individualism, Originality Of Thinking, Whimsicality, Even - If You Will - Eccentricity. That Is, Something That Can't Be Feigned, Faked, Imitated; Something Even A Seasoned Imposter Couldn't Be Happy With.

As To The State, From My Point Of View, The Measure Of A Writer's Patriotism Is Not Oaths From A High Platform, But How He Writes In The Language Of The People Among Whom He Lives .

I'm A Bad Jew, A Bad Russian, A Bad Everything.

Life—the Way It Really Is—is A Battle Not Between Good And Bad, But Between Bad And Worse

The Real History Of Consciousness Starts With One's First Lie.