“He who does not regret the break-up of the Soviet Union has no heart; he who wants to revive it in its previous form has no head.”

“Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.”

“One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.”

“We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them. ”

“Just like a man grieving because he has recently lost in his dreams some thing that he had never had in reality, or hoping that tomorrow he would dream that he found it again. That is how mathematics is created; it has its fatal flaw.”

“for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.”

“The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.”