Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it. - Mikhail Bulgakov

There was something uncommonly fake and uncertain in every line of these articles, depite their threatening and self-assured tone. I kept thinking . . . that the authors of these articles weren't saying what they wanted to say, and that that was why they were so furious.

Ryukhin showed himself no mercy-'I don't believe in anything I've ever written!'

I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me that I don't exist. But you do believe that it is really I?