Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as the flag goes by. It is worse than going into a Catholic church in Spain with your upper arms bare. It is worse than telling a mother her baby bores you.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.

Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.

Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.