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.

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

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.

But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

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.

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.