For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.

As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?