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

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.

Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

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