Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.

Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation. "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!

"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.

he was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!

But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the who is loved.

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

The problem with guilt was not how it attacks the present, but how it stained the past. Hindsight was a blemish on memory.

If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being.

My injury I told myself to deal with it, and bounce back stronger. I think I have.

Questions outlive the answers.

I do not go to the gym. I do not train. I am not that careful about what I eat. I cannot give you any advice about keeping fit. The best advice I can give is choose your parents wisely.

I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.

My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

Seen from the moon we are all the same size.

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by so doing they may fend off subjection.