Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.
One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly.
The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.
Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.
There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.
But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.
You get to have some bigger comedic moments with some very real dramatic stuff. All that in one makes for a fulfilling artistic job.
I think the media's a little frightened of women.
Believe it in your heart; say it with your mouth. That is the principle of faith. You can have what you say.
Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable fires of hell?