Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

There is no meaning to existence except which we put in it

The meaning of life is life.

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.