Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.

I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman. Friendship is far more human.

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.