As long as the forest stood the Tchetchens were unconquerable... and it is literally the fact that they were beaten in the long run not by the sword but by the axe.

...and to this day the rare traveller who knows the language and customs even of the worst of the tribes is safer amongst them than in the neighbouring Cossack settlements.

Knowing the Truth is not based on knowledge, but on being "it".

I’ve had a fountain pen surgically implanted in my left index finger to save trouble. My body is tattooed with line upon line of truth, fiction, and a not-always-pleasing mix of the two.

She’s never where she is, ' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

Something that is set can be broken, so are society standards and limits.

Look beyond what you can see, Think Potential

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

I've always been hopeless at everything when I was a kid. That's why I became an actor - 'cause I couldn't do anything else.

Jesus Christ, being 2000 years old and some change, is a relatively "new" god of the older god category - and has done quite well for himself, in terms of worship.

To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.

If you don't respect your time, no one will respect your time.