A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

Nothing bubbled up from the depths. For once, the present was so alive and captivating that the past was not even an echo or a shadow-she was, in this moment, wiped clean.

A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something that permeates and which is eternal through time.

Prepare far enough in advance, and just about anything is possible.

I never thought I would become a photographer.

Every language has its own music.

I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.

I assure you that interest in Japanese culture in Russia is just as strong as interest in Russian culture in Japan.

Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own.