Yevgeny Zamyatin

True literature can exist only where it is created not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries but by madmen hermits heretics dreamers rebels and skeptics.

Explosions are not comfortable.

The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots.

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom.

Dogma static positions consonance all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art at least in its more complex forms.

Who knows who you are ... A person is a novel: you don't know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading to the very end.

Only the rational and useful is beautiful.