You were born to persistently change your negative conditions instead of being changed by them.

Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

I think it's the wrong way around to say when you get older move to the country. I think when you get older you move to New York. If you're a nice broad they'll look after you.

He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the only sense that matters.

It’s the same as always. He doesn’t pursue those who leave, and ignores those who come.

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

Black eyeliner says 'You've been through stuff, you know things'.

I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.

Speaking seriously, Russia does not want to aggravate relations with anyone. We don't want any tensions. We want a good, friendly partnership with everyone.