The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

俄罗斯的面貌反映在它的人民的眼中。