I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.
There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.
Think before you speak, and don't say everything you think.
Most Russians don't care whether they are ruled by fascists or communists or even Martians as long as they can buy six kinds of sausage in the store and lots of cheap vodka.
You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.
I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.
I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.
For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.
Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.
So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the standard of thought and conduct from the low level of selfishness and self-indulgence up to the lofty realms of aspirational thought and self-denial.