Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.

A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.

Only entropy comes easy.

In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger - a stranger... A stranger, and lonely...

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.