To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

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!

Yesterday Allison bought me nail polish in the annoying shade of mauve. How can anyone look at me and think mauve?

The surest poison is time.

One of the things we're all going to have to discover, establishment is just an abusive term for institutions. It's institutions that keep us free.

... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak.

I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be rich.

Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

We ought never to lose hope. God overwhelms us with his grace, if we keep asking.

The value of travel is not just the travel but what the travel makes of you.