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.

When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny.

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.

Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.

Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.

Great knowledge brings great sorrow.

There are far more reasons for death than there are for life.