A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.

You can throw a bucket of cold water on Russians, and we can take it. But one shouldn't humiliate us!

How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.

Daily ripples of excellence -over time- become a tsunami of success

Machinery which is not used is not capital.

Seeing people get messed up never gets un-funny! And there's plenty of ways to do that.

News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.

Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

I have a beard. Just not on my face.

My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world.

As estimated, you died. Things marched, sufficient, to that end. Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented terror, so many routine cries.

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.