In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo.... It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor in that form. In a word, it was nothing but a zoo, you can't put it better

We have rigged the latest election. 93.5 per cent have voted for Lukashenko. But they say it is not a European outcome. We have made it 86 per cent.

We do not need an imported system for falsifying elections! We will create our own, one run by the state!

A thug only understands you when you speak his language

You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.

Look outside the window. Do you see the fence outside the palace? Do you see any guards? This is a country where everyone is safe.

Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?

Milosevic was an outstanding politician who gave his all to serving his fatherland.

You should not be misled about the so-called single opposition candidate. There are so many of them now that you will lack the fingers to count them.

Money can't buy true love. Those promises. A real person who loves you, loves you from the heart.

I want to be married and I want to be away from people.

The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.

Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.

We can be beautiful at all ages. Feminine beauty comes in all shapes, sizes, colors, ways.

Don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience.

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

I'm mildly obsessed with skin care. I do a lot of masks at home, like Elisha Coy's Korean Collagen masks. I also use an embarrassingly wide variety of facial creams.

I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is.

The one I love is the son of the one I hate! -Juliet p. 75