All previous crimes of the Russian empire had been committed under the cover of a discreet shadow. The deportation of a million Lithuanians, the murder of hundreds of thousands of Poles, the liquidation of the Crimean Tatars remain in our memory, but no photographic documentation exists; sooner or later they will therefore be proclaimed as fabrications.

Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.

Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.

Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos.