You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.
I wouldn’t like to meet you when you’ve got a revolver,” said Margarita with a coquettish look at Azazello. She had a passion for people who did things well.
The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.
the hope that there she would manage to regain her happiness made her fearless
just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once
There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last
Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.
I do like to make people cringe. That discomfort, tension, embarrassment, pain - all of those things interest me, and not through some sort of masochistic or sadistic impulse. It illuminates what being a human being is. It taps into what it is to be human more incisively than stuff that's just very pedestrian.
. . . a mind, if given only the best food never craves any other.
To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.
The notion that you have a blind trust but you can tell your trustee when to sell stock in it just doesn't make any sense. It means you have a seeing eye trust and not a blind trust. It's ridiculous.