One can’t have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You’re paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

No social stability without individual stability.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

... suffice to say, joy is where you find it- usually on the shelf right next to sadness.

Never underestimate yourself

All paths lead to death, our premature sacrifice for future spawn(from Elixir)

The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done not often.

I always turn to my intuition for personal guidance.

[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining.

Since I'm constantly in the sun, I use sunscreen daily.

Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.

I am a human being, a citizen of the Russian Federation, a Russian.