"Everybody keeps saying - reform, reform. The T-72 has proved itself wonderfully in Chechnya. So we will be making reform on the basis of T-72."

"I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer."

"The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ea…"

"We are members of this Head, and this body cannot be decapitated. If the Head is in glory forever, so too a…"

"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."

"The assumption that everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. …"

"If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose."