要理解一种文化，首先必须理解它的语言。

The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.

"Human behavior is the product of evolved psychological mechanisms that process information from the environment."

The strictness of Russian laws is mitigated by the non-obligation to fulfill them.