We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.