“Knowing all the languages in the world could help you to really understand all the jokes you can hear... from my future Kids' Funny Business.”

“One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces.”

“The thinnest thing in the world is the border between good and evil... my next The Opposite Of Magic.”

“Even in the hottest fire there's a bit of water. my The Opposite Of Magic.”

“No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands... that can do your brain.”

“He was still open to the magic of this place. I didn't know a lot of people who were open to magic at all.”

“The queen gazes into the garden. There, near the trees, is a fountain; it is white in the darkness and tall, tall as a ghost. The queen hears, through the talk and the music, the soft splashing of its waters. She looks and thinks. You, Sirs, you are all noble, clever, rich, you throng round me, every one of my words is precious to you, you are all ready to die at my feet, you are my slaves.. But there, by the fountain, by the plashing water, he whose slave I am awaits me. He wears neither gorgeous raiment nor precious stones, no one knows him, but he await me, sure that I come – and I shall come –and there is no power in the world that can stop me when I want to go to him, to be with him, to lose myself with him there in the darkness of the garden, with the rustling of the trees and the murmur of the fountain …' Zinaida was silent.”