-His lethargic display of apathy and lack of industry is shameful!

-It is a legitimate response to the harsh and inconsequential nature of being. I celebrate his tenacity!

After that act of defiance Grigor was never heard from again.  And none in the company ever spoke of the incident.  He was my best friend.

Kapitan, there was an accident in the research facility!  It’s imperative we reach the acid baths…

That we both may be a burden on the state, this thought above all others keeps me from sleep this night.

-The air is crisp, like fresh spring leaves.

-Do you know the time in Zurich?

-It is you! no one believed you would survive.

-We have little time, you must get these microfiche of the sub plans to Moscow

Let this serve as a warning to all betrayers!

Commissar Markov has long been a loyal party member, but I fear his growing influence in state policy.  Perhaps it is time to cash in a favor from my friends at the Kremlin.

Yes child, enjoy your naive appreciation of life’s novelty. Soon you will grow and so will your disdain for this banal existence you once considered beautiful.

Drat, thwarted so close to freedom’s sweet caress…  I dreamed for but a taste of the decadent west, and now my eulogy is sung by guard dogs and alarm bells.

The men I’ve sent to death weigh heavily on my mind; but this burden is but a fist of straw compared to the strain of the republic.

You’re light on your payments again Andrei.  If we discover you’ve been holding out, you’ll be treated to a reunion with your cousins at the bottom of the Moskva.

Cease your protests, the deal is done!  You are to make a fine wife for uncouth American businessman!

I swear I spoke no ill of The Party!

Submit with honor, and you will earn a proper burial among your fathers

What beauty, not since during Glasnost has my heart soared so! I intend you to bear my children, this request you will not deny!

This shall provide the nourishment needed to brave the crowds awaiting their weekly beetroot ration.

We sleep with vigor. Content with the knowledge that Lenin’s body shall never decay…

Mother, if my constitution is unfit for gymnast… The grist mill shall become my pommel horse and daily labor my reward!

Puppy: Can I conjure happiness from physical things?

other: You can try.

Puppy: This experience made me weak willed and afraid

other:  With this effort you will come up short every time.

Is most powerful laptop in all of Tbilisi, can it be?

(The cat, he is quoting famous Russian comedian)

were it not for fashionable style haircut.. sniper’s bullet would have made my death.. it is true!

I can see someone’s misplaced Ushanka? Careless fool, winter’s bitter fury will surely smother their spirit.

Your plea…

…guilty and content with my punishment!

Cat: My spirit is being crushed within the machinery of industrial society

Mouse: Your failing is lack of hard work and diligence