“I don't like food. I LOVE it. If I don't love it, I don't swallow.”

“I never look back darling. It distracts from the now.”

“You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.”

“...can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.”

“Anna Petrovna: Kolya, my dearest, stay at home.Ivanov: My love, my unhappy darling, I beg you, don't stop me going out in the evenings. It's cruel and unjust on my part, but let me commit that injustice. It's an agony for me at home. As soon as the sun disappears, my spirit begins to be weighed down by depression. What depression! Don't ask why. I myself don't know. I swear by God's truth I don't know. Here I'm in anguish, I go to the Lebedevs and there it's still worse; I return from there and here it's depression again, and so all night... Simply despair!”

“How exactly are you supposed to force your way into someone's life? Like I said, I have nothing she wants anymore. Not even, or especially not, my love.”

“Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history...”