A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.

There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.

I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.

In Russia, the moment a person opens his mouth you know where he's from. There's the uniformity of experience of an individual in Russia. When you're about 7 years old you get into school and you get put in this factory or this bureaucracy or whatever. The options are computable. Here it's tremendously diverse.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.