“I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.”

“It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.”

“What I'm searching for is the opposite of an intellectual, in other words, someone intelligent.”

“In principle I'm an atheist, although in fact I have a lot of faith”

“I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.”

“Sometimes it's easier to talk to a stranger than someone you know. Why is that?”“Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as they wish us to be”

“Let's shake hands and be friends, but please, I beg you, stop farting like that, because I'm beginning to hallucinate and in my dreams I see Comrade Joseph Stalin doing the Charleston.”