Surviving Is Much More Painful Than Death.

Most Things In Here Don't React Well To Bullets.

If You Don't Write The Book, The Book Ain't Gonna Get Written.

The Most Wounding Insult To An Educated Russian Was To Be Called Nekulturny-uncultured-yet The Same Men Who Sat In The Gilt Boxes At The Moscow State Opera Weeping At The End Of A Performance Of Boris Gudunov Could Immediately Turn Around And Order The Execution Or Imprisonment Of A Hundred Men Without Blinking. A Strange People, Made More Strange By Their Political Philosophy.

Even True Believers Had Consciences, Too Bad.

Colleges Typically Did Not Tell You That Ninety Percent Of Your Education Came After You Hung The Parchment On The Wall. People Might Ask For A Rebate.