Don't disturb yourselves. I am not mad, I am only a murderer.

What's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

The queen who mended her stockings in prison must have looked every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levees.

It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.

I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.

Two and two do make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies.

I tell you, sir, it's very easy for Pyotr Stepanovich to live in the world, because he imagines a man and then lives with him the way he imagined him.