It's not natural for people in the opposition to leave. It's always a personal catastrophe.

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.

Putin needed an enemy, an Other, against which to mobilize. LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent.

A law is always that much more scary and that much more effective for a totalitarian state if it's selectively enforced.

You risk everything if you so much as join a legal protest demonstration in Russia. It raises the stakes.

One of the things that I really value about Russian culture is that on the private level it allows for a huge amount of variety and individuality with regards to family structure.

It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.

Never become impatient with the process, bored with the pace, frustrated at the meager results, just keep trying.

I really believe that it is honesty about our imperfect selves that makes everyone do better and be better.

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.

FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.

Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.

When Spring is old, and dewy windsBlow from the south, with odors sweet,I see my love, in shadowy groves,Speed down dark aisles on shining feet.

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.