Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

I have a trend of my own.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

My body gets weak without truth.

We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.

I think it's fair to say that I don't pick up languages. If anything, I roll around in them gracelessly and pray that something sticks.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

In USA culture is just a matter of commerce. So, you know, I don't really look for that, and I don't expect to find it in any city.

There are a lot of people who that you may only nod to; it's better to stop and say hello.

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

Thank heaven for startups; without them we'd never have any advances.

When we realize how little we mean to the universe, we realize how important we are to each other