“For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.”

“You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours”

“I knew. I was not naive. I didn't want to know. I was naive.”

“Since this is Russia, such things are to be expected, though of course, neither he nor anyone else expected it.”

“This isn't business. This is poetry.”

“... how much patience is a virtue, how much rage is a necessity?”

“An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas do not kill people; they ruin them. People kill people.”