I had thought about it so often - too often, to the point where it had distorted my sense of time.

I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.

I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.

Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

We dream because that's what life is.Anything else and it would be a nightmare.

Memories come to mind like excavated statuesthat have misplaced their heads.

All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which old answersAre not sufficient…

Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.

Why are some things easier to write than say?

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.

Most haystacks do not even have a needle.

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects