“The moment I closed my eyes I pictured the naked women from the magazine. I was afraid that I had gone insane and would never be able to think of anything else.” — Mikhail Iossel Copy Share Image
“I realized that I was a bad listener: I paid too much attention to the words.” — Mikhail Iossel Copy Share Image
“Each one appeared less a human being than an extension of his fixed bayonet.” — Mikhail Iossel Copy Share Image
“I had never seen a photo of a naked woman before—only paintings and sculptures in the Hermitage.” — Mikhail Iossel Copy Share Image
“Real life is often more literary than the works of literature. That’s because it doesn’t have to appear credible.” — Mikhail Iossel Copy Share Image
“I knew they were thought of as fools. I also knew they were clever.” — Mikhail Iossel Copy Share Image
“His apartment was on the twenty-fifth floor and cost him $3000 a month. He was in his early twenties and had a stupidly disarming… — Mikhail Iossel Copy Share Image
“Every time I read a newspaper, recognizing by experience the real meaning of each word that has been omitted, I feel sad, and even… — Mikhail Iossel Copy Share Image
“Maybe it was just a spur-of-the-moment, “why not?” wild kind of thing that spontaneous people like him often do. I could easily see that:… — Mikhail Iossel Copy Share Image
“We never seriously questioned life, because it was not likely to provide us with any answers.” — Mikhail Iossel Copy Share Image
“I was never good at telling intelligent people from mere self-confident fools, the know-it-alls, because I didn’t and couldn’t know, growing up, that, of… — Mikhail Iossel Copy Share Image
“The Kremlin Wall was the color of coagulated blood. Its tooth-edged outline served a quiet warning to an enemy.” — Mikhail Iossel Copy Share Image
