When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

Putin needed an enemy, an Other, against which to mobilize. LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent.

It's not natural for people in the opposition to leave. It's always a personal catastrophe.

A law is always that much more scary and that much more effective for a totalitarian state if it's selectively enforced.

You risk everything if you so much as join a legal protest demonstration in Russia. It raises the stakes.

One of the things that I really value about Russian culture is that on the private level it allows for a huge amount of variety and individuality with regards to family structure.

It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.

Alma: ¿Dónde está el oro aquel que viste? Todo ha cambiado cuando estuvo enfrente

Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.

But there was little heart to our lust, only the confusion of not knowinghow long we'd have in our bodies.

Where bad's the best bad must be the choice.

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

Things are not worth attending to, yet they have to be attended to.

Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles.

Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation.

I'm a control freak. Totally.

You can achieve what you believe you can. Trust and believe and have faith.