“ Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it. ”
It is easy to love people in memory the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.
~ John Updike
Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.