Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity. Albert Einstein, a German physicist, the ...
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened. Michel de Montaigne, a French philosopher...
London, 2004 The photo in London was taken on a film camera (affectionately known as a “soapbox”) in April 2004; it was the day when I walked from Fitzroy Street through High Holborn and v...
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recen...
I took these photos of the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Smolenskaya Square on the day of my birthday in December. My father and I were walking down the Old Arbat Street, wra...
To the sensitive young woman who has had the benefits of proper upbringing, the wedding day is, ironically, both the happiest and most terrifying day of her life. On the positive side, there is the we...
Fresh from reading a summary of Keira Knightley’s interview, I’d like to say that I, too, haven’t been watching TV on a daily basis since 2008. Even though we had TV sets in our Mosc...
I think writing is the ultimate job for a control freak. Alastair Campbell, a British journalist, broadcaster, and author....
You don’t have to see the whole staircase – just take the first step. Martin Luther King, an American activist and civil rights leader. Read an amusing story that took place in Moscow in ...
Frankly speaking, this is the only red caviar dispensing machine that I’ve seen in Moscow. It is easily reached from Baumanskaya metro station. It would be nice if there were, say, a machine dis...