Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

100% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.100

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.

We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job.

I would also like to see Russia not interfere in our elections.

I think we should be alarmed, watchful, and, as journalists, rigorous and fearless. I think we should be alert.

To find the nectar of life, let me get lost in the mysteries and beauties of the imagination.

The world is full of places I haven't been.

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that the same sense of service demanded something more of me.

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

I can't get a job, I can't get arrested.

It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

In a justly organized community, however, government exists to secure the right to life and the other human rights that follow from that primary right.

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

It is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything.