Yevgeny Zamyatin

"You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you you hate it because you are afraid of it you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved."

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

"At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense."

"The formal character of a living literature is the same as its inner character: it denies verities; it denies what everyone knows and what I have known until this moment. It departs from the canonical…"

"The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity — but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage. We must compress into a single second what was held before …"

"The "twists and turns" of Yevgeny Zamyatin's Life, a brief, illustrated biography by Tatyana Kukushkina"

"Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith."

"She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me- and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I knew: this is how it must be. I knew it with every nerve, and every hair, and every hear…"