He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.