Vladimir Voinovich. Raspberry Pelican (№ 263148)

- Tell me, why are you against joining us on the Crimean Peninsula? Someone for your opinions pay? - He raised to my lips a recorder the size of a matchbox.
To me it had to be immediately sent away, but I'm a polite person.
- No, - I say - sorry, no I have not paid for it. I, you see, the thoughts themselves are sometimes quite wild in my head are born, and imagine absolutely for free. That is, they with all my desire, and unfortunately does not translate into money.
I do not understand, - he said. - I think thoughts that are not worth the money, not worth it to them to give.
- How to speak, how? You see, there is such a thing, the pursuit of truth. Come across in life are people for whom truth is the most expensive, more expensive than any money.
Are - readily he agreed. - Of course, come across. I recently visited a large group of these in the Serbsky Institute.