Death can be successfully put out of mind for the simple reason that it is beyond human experience. Death is either the abstract concept of nonexiste…

- Lidiya Ginzburg

Humans abhor a vacuum. The immediate filling of a vacuum is one of the basic functions of speech. Meaningless conversations are no less important in …

- Lidiya Ginzburg

You must be practically a hero to retain your composure in the midst of universal panic. But just try to scream and tear around when everyone else is…

- Lidiya Ginzburg

A line is an involuntary combination of people who are simultaneously irritated with one another and focused on a single, common circle of interests …

- Lidiya Ginzburg