1. “The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.”
2. “Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.”
3. “The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned.”
4. “You lose your immorality when you lose your memory.”
5. “Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.”
6. “I confess, I do not believe in time.”
7. “Words without experience are meaningless.”
8. “There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.”
9. “We think not in words but in shadows of words.”
10. “The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.”
11. “One is always at home in one’s past.”
12. “A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.”
13. “Life is a message scribbled in the dark.”
14. “y mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian and my ear prefers French.”
15. “Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.”
16. “Genius is finding the invisible link between things.”
17. “Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.”
18. “Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.”
19. “Let all of life be an unfettered howl.”
20. “Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”
21. “Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.”
22. “Onlu one letter divides the comic from cosmic.”
23. “A good laugh is the best pesticide.”
24. “A writer should have the precision of poet and the imagination of a scientist.”
25. “I don’t think in any language. I think in images.”
26. “Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.”
27. “Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.”
28. “We live not only in a world of thought, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.”
29. “Solitude is the playfield of Satan.”
30. “The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition.”
