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

---

Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.

---

Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.

---

You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.

---

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.

---

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

---

Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.

---

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

---

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

---

There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.

---