If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it.

Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie.

How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice.

Of course we got drunk!" Semyon said. "It's okay to get drunk, Anton. If you need to real bad. Only you have to get drunk on vodka. Cognac and wine—that's all for the heart." "So what's vodka for?" "For the soul. If it's hurting real bad

A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.