I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.
Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.
A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives
Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!
I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.
The trouble with the new world we have watched being created over the past decade is that it sees no further than money. People have always been obsessed with money, of course - greed is as old as history. But when the institutions that govern all our lives forget there was ever anything else, then it gets dangerous.
ʺWhere is it?ʺ I asked. ʺLexington, Kentucky. ʺ ʺOh for Godʹs sake,ʺ I moaned. ʺWhy not the Bahamas? Or the Corn Palace?ʺ Dimitri tried to hide a smile. It might have been at my expense, but if Iʹd lightened his mood, I was grateful. ʺIf we leave right now, we can reach him before morning. ʺ I glanced around. ʺTough choice. Leave all this for electricity and plumbing?ʺ Now Sydney grinned. ʺAnd no more marriage proposals. ʺ ʺAnd weʹll probably have to fight Strigoi,ʺ added Dimitri. I jumped to my feet. ʺHow soon can we go?ʺ
It looks like the future's really bright.