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

“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.”

“... 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.”