It seems to be in fashion among Russian politicians to blame Berezovsky for everything. Soon they'll be holding him responsible for global warming, earthquakes and tsunamis.

Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can’t give in to extortion.

I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.

I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.

I don't believe in democracy by bayonet.

It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.

I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.

Owning a newspaper does not confer immunity.

Facts are important to me, not emotions. I would caution against speculation.

Politkovskaya was a known critic of the administration. For this reason, one cannot rule out the possibility that someone would want to blame the government for the murder.

He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood.

There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal guns.

I was particularly stunned by the casting of Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.

When people hear the word “beautiful”, they expect something to be pretty. And for me that's not always necessarily the case, y'know.

I have these thoughts. I think "What if the show doesn't sell well? What if it's a half-empty room?" These are the paranoia thoughts that go through my head on a day-by-day basis.

I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.

Michael Jackson is everywhere. I can't not listen to what we did because it's everywhere. I listen to it all the time whether I want to or not.

One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.