Book: Shadows in Paradise. Page 8

- You're not Russian?
- No. Why do you ask?
- Yes, because some Russian ladies are able to construct a coherent logical build based on false premises and false inferences, and then to claim to others. Very attractive, very feminine and a very dangerous trait.

... memories are extremely dangerous; if you take the way of memories, it will be on a narrow catwalk without railings, on both sides of which gap; through this footbridge, you can neither sneer nor to speculate, you can only go forward without hesitation.

- Can you cook?
- How to say it. Know how to grill steaks and open cans.

The man who idolizes a woman for all to see, reminiscent of a slavering dog.

"Darling". In the States this word means nothing and means a lot. The so-called telephone operators, who in my eyes have not seen, and the so-called and the women who loved more than life itself.

On the death of people speak and know that it is inevitable, but nobody believes it because it lies beyond the concepts of life and conditioned by life itself. Death is unknowable.

War is a plow, it plows the earth and redistributes state. Old disappear, in their place, there is countless new.

- I generally like to stay in a hotel. In hotels is never boring. People come and go. Say Hello and goodbye. This is the best moments in life.
- You think so?
The least boring, anyway. And all that is between them... But the big hotels impersonal. There too conceals their emotions. You think the air smells of adventure, but to join him is impossible.

Stupidity - the most valuable gift. But the one who lost, will never be again. It saves as a cap of invisibility. Danger that cannot be blocked by any intelligence, stupidity just doesn't notice.

After the crabs will eat more ice cream? I asked Kahn.
- I have done it once. I cannot say that I benefited from it. It is impossible to follow all of the drives at once.
- Very wise.

- Honey, it's the trouble of a big city - there is almost never alone.
- Whence, then, here are the children?

You always have to learn new things, if possible.

- I am a modest person. I think just about the box office, and you immediately robbery. You'll go far.
- But live, probably less.

Falsity and hypocrisy make a greater impression than the truth.