One has to be able to count, if only so that at fifty one doesnt marry — Maxim Gorky

"Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber."

"A time will come when people will forget Gorky’s works, but he himself will hardly be forgotten even in a thousand years."

"It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes."

"Theres a little book Im thinking of writing — "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence."

"Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. Thats why we want respect for every man — who knows whats in him, why he was born and what he can do?"

"The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul."