just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once
Mikhail BulgakovYou're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied. 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. 'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!
Mikhail BulgakovThe darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator.
Mikhail BulgakovTo struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls for freedom of the press. I am a passionate supporter of that freedom, and I consider that if any writer were to imagine that he could prove he didn't need that freedom, then he would be like a fish affirming in public that it didn't need water.
Mikhail Bulgakov