"I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing—I cannot tell you how much."

"Better to do nothing than to engage in localized acts whose ultimate function is to make the system run more smoothly."

"My relationship towards tulips is inherently Lynchian: I think they are disgusting. Just imagine, aren't these some kind of--how do you call it? I think that- that flowers are something inherently dis…"

"There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from prehistoric societies it took primitivism; from the Ancient world it took sla…"

"Happiness is a very dangerous category. It's a kind of ideological blackmail."