"Honest women are inconsolable for the mistakes they haven't made."

"You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty."

"When a man marries his mistress, he creates a job vacancy."

"When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her."

"Science does not aim to cover exhaustively the whole of reality, but to construct systems and concepts which will per…"

"I find that violence is very ambiguous in movies. For example, some films claim to be antiwar, but I don't think I've…"

"When Russians were growing up in Soviet times, they thought Chukovsky’s story about the cockroach ruling over all the…"

"The Russian past offers many lessons for the present and not just those the current powers that be want people to dra…"

"The Dalai Lama was little known, because he had never traveled abroad and was not yet a Nobel Prize winner, but he op…"

"At that time, the Dalai Lama was much more accessible, I had breakfast with him and spend long moments alone with him."