“There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.”

“..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.”

“Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.”

“Sasha: Men don't understand a lot of things. Every young girl is going to be drawn more to a failure than to a successful man, because they're all attracted by the notion of active love... Do you understand? Active. Men are busy with their work, and therefore for them love is something right in the background. A conversation with the wife, a stroll with her in the garden, a nice time, a cry on her grave - that's all. But for us love is life. I love you, that means that I dream of how I'll cure you of your depression, of how I'll go with you to the ends of the earth... When you're up, so am I; when you're down, so am I. ... The more work there is, the better love is ...”

“It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.”

“It saddened me that sometimes shopping was far more perilous than dealing with zombies and vampires.”

“A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.”