... skepticism is a way of freeing the dogmatic mind, and that's where its value lies.

... the very concept of happiness is conditional, a fiction.

All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go.

Moscow was an enormous city, but there was nowhere to go in it.

Finally, he gave up trying to quiet her and lit a cigarette, the last resort of a man who finds himself in an intolerably stupid position.