Now tell me the truth, Lapsus, why do you write about things you’ve never seen before in your life? Things you don’t have the slightest idea about? Why is ‘peignoir’ a ball gown in your poem ‘Canton’? Why?

All we need is twenty rubles to make the treasure ours. At this point we can’t scruple about using any means possible. “Aut Caesar aut nihil.” I choose Caesar, even though he’s clearly a monarchist.

Maybe we could make it to Stalingrad on twenty rubles. But how would we eat? Vitamins, my dear comrade marshal, don’t get handed out for free.

No one likes us, unless you count Criminal Investigations, which also doesn’t like us.

Podkolyosin asked tragically, “Why are you keeping quiet, like the League of Nations?

Pushkin wrote Turkish poems and he was never in Turkey.

California is the most reactionary state in America. Fascist sentiments are very strong here.

Everyone drank to popular education and to the irrigation of Uzbekistan.

Il grande tessitore si sentiva ispirato, si sentiva in quell'inebriante stato d'animo che precede la messa in atto di un raggiro di medio-alto livello.

Se non può far a meno di soffrire, soffra almeno in silenzio.