“People who understand everything get no stories.”

“Happy is the people who need no heroes.”

“When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.”

“Who built the seven towers of Thebes?The books are filled with the names of kings.Was it kings who hauled the craggy blocks of stone?...In the evening when the Chinese wall was finishedWhere did the masons go?...”

“Girl Tractorist: As the poet Mayakovsky said: "The home of the Soviet people shall be the home of Reason"!”

“Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.”

“He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. ”