Even today I cannot believe that people who lived together could inflict horrible pain on each other.

When you are conjoined at the head with another person, it is so frustrating and so painful that you hate the person who keeps you all the time attached to him/her, but he/she also hates you.

When I write, I usually follow my most inner voice, sometimes called stream of consciousness.

I cannot and don't really want to control my mind, soul, or heart when I write and must recognize that I don't think about the readers at that moment of writing.

When politics promote hate, it becomes a rule, and populist provocation becomes standard. It has been the same throughout the entire history of humanity.

Always and Everywhere a Book Is Waiting for Me

Pain is awesome I like it, to see myself scared is awesome to see how people get killed just makes me happy.

[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

If truth prevails, the contributions of a courageous physician and a brilliant engineer to the conquest of waterborne disease will still be remembered in another hundred years.

I think of the horizon at midnight, the sky and sea blurring together.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.

Security breeds stagnation.

The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people.

I am a man of my word… and that word is “unreliable.

Dimitri Belikov had arrived.