Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Chase your dreams with all your strength, soul land sprit.

They say that to live in the Wilds, you have to be half-wild yourself. Or at least very brave. And Zane is both.

Human life is fiction's only theme.

Keep to your precious honor. Rather die than sully it. There is only honor in a man's life and the rest is meaningless gibberish.

That's the reason I'm not the one that's dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy.

Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.