"One minute, she was in the State of Puerto Rico and the next minute, she was in the State of Persistent Vegetables."

"While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against…"

"Who is stronger: the one who gives the blow, or the one who endures it?"

"Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience."

"US accusations against Russia of violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty are groundless..…"

"A wrongness persisted, a sense of aberration, some factor not quite right, the feeling of a corner. But Boo…"

"We have persistent objects, they're called files."