Instead of lullabies, my mother would sing us songs of the Revolution. Now she sings them to her grandchildren. 'Are you nuts?' I ask her. She replies, 'I don't know any other songs.

I'm afraid of freedom, it feels like some drunk guy could show up and burn my dacha at any moment.

The mysterious Russian soul... Everyone wants to understand it. They read Dostoevsky: what's behind that soul of theirs? Well, behind our soul there's just more soul.

Many greeted the truth as an enemy. And freedom as well.

Who’s gonna bring the wild animals some hope? If we don’t love them the way they are..

How far you go in life and in your career is dependent on how far you can think good thoughts!

God's will is your deepest desires.

If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy.

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night

Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.

I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.

Here's the problem, and here's what he's going to learn. I do not work for Donald Trump. Come the 20th, Donald Trump works for us. We're the boss.

There is no hope for television by means of cathode-ray tubes.