As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is the basis of socialism.

A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt.

no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.

Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them for their appearance, but for the memories in them, for their good wearing qualities and the thrift they represented.