...knowing about your past lives is worse than useless if that knowledge doesn't bring you some kind of positive change or healing.

Alexis, please mind your mouth. Cursing in Russian is still cursing.

Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.

I'm really a sucker for old, old movies. Like old film noir. I don't know. I also really enjoy independent movies.

Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.

A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.

I made this my rule: When the Lord commands, do it.

You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me.