Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes.

All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.

It's all like an ocean!" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

But he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, “I never asked to be born in the first place.

This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.

The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.