“... how much patience is a virtue, how much rage is a necessity?”
“This isn't business. This is poetry.”
“Since this is Russia, such things are to be expected, though of course, neither he nor anyone else expected it.”
“I knew. I was not naive. I didn't want to know. I was naive.”
“You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours”
“For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.”