There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase

- Sergei Dovlatov

Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing.

- Sergei Dovlatov

If people are rude in Moscow, at least it's in Russian.

- Sergei Dovlatov

Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.

- Sergei Dovlatov

Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ec…

- Sergei Dovlatov

We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. We’ve just been to the last stop of this bus.

- Sergei Dovlatov