"My television teaches me that everything was wonderful in the Soviet Union. According to the programs I watch, the KGB and apparatchiks were angels, and the Stalin era was so festive that the heroes of the day must still be celebrated today."

-- Vladimir Sorokin

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“If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right.”
“When traveling, I usually keep a notebook: when home at my desk, the notebook serves mainly to remind me how little I saw at the time, or rather how I was noticing the wrong things. But the notes do spur memories, and it's the memories I trust. The wine stain on the page may tell me more than the words there, which usually strike me as hopelessly inadequate.”
“You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.”
“I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.”
“This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.”
“Magic is something that seems like it goes against how the world works and its us magicians job to be doing that.”
“I sometimes say animals are closer to God than humans. They are closer to the source. The humans are more lost in the mind forms. Being is more obscured to the human because of the overlay of ego and mental formation.”
“I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface.”

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