“When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.”

“Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself”

“What an amusing drama life is when one is not obliged to be one of the characters!”

“It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.”

“When you understand that you will die tomorrow, if not today, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death”

“The fear for oneself, that one can do something about. Upon it one can turn the light of awareness. But when one is no longer worrying about oneself, then the fear comes for other people and, after that, for the world.There are no fearless people, only fearless moments.”