This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel.

Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation. "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!

"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.

he was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!

But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the who is loved.

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

The more one judges, the less one loves.

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

I think that if you grow up trying to be the best then you have to be competitive because the more you compete, the more someone is there that is a challenge and the more your performance improves.

A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place.

The quantity of meaning compressed into small space by algebraic signs, is another circumstance that facilitates the reasonings we are accustomed to carry on by their aid.

Yes, Jews - typically American Jews, typically vote democrat, I get that.

All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.

Politics should be about politics, not tribal ties

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.