I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don’t like. No other criterion exists for me. - Anton Chekhov

I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind.

Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.

A man who doesn’t drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.