There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

The sufferings which may be observed nowadays - they are so widespread and so vast - but people speak nevertheless about a certain moral improvement which society has achieved…

But then there's loneliness. However you might philosophise about it, loneliness is a terrible thing, my dear fellow… Although in reality, of course, it's absolutely of no importance!

MASHA: Isn’t there some meaning?TOOZENBACH: Meaning? … Look out there, it’s snowing. What’s the meaning of that?

Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror.

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.

A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.

Pearls are always appropriate.

Grab reality by the balls and squeeze.

Globalization offers us enormous opportunities in the race to leapfrog in development processes. It also obliges us to set in motion processes which would minimize its risks.

I'm going to do my best to channel the character on a spiritual level.