There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!

If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.

To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.