Everyone in Russia must awaken the citizen within himself..

The image is an image..

God hides things by putting them near us..

I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas..

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is not a member of this gr….

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would be ove….

In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their liter….

In Russia no one is surprised when an official accepts a bribe while at the same time portraying the state as some sacred entity to which the bourgeo….

The worst thing that can happen to Russia is indifference in the West - that is, if it were interested in nothing but oil and gas..

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

As someone who grew up there, I say: The Chechen Republic must remain part of Russia. Everything else is negotiable..

I am not an African. I am an American..

What right does the West have to constantly criticize Russia? There are a few things about the West that I don't like either. But I am not constantly….

In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we'….

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian ….

Politics is a highly tribal business..