Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin

To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.

Feminism is not inherently bourgeois, but bourgeois feminism is the only one given voice in our society. That is why women’s issues discuss glass ceilings rather than dirt floors.

A river cannot boast to a sea.

Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.

I never like the way I look. I don't. I never look at myself.

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.

Our times demand rejection of seven word bios.

I've always said I'm going to get married only once.

I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through the characters.

All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye.