- Fluke Kelso: Look, actually... I don't want to sleep with you. Although that would be... a very attractive proposition but... I want something else from you.
- Zinaida: Whatever you want is still three hundred.
- Suvorin: I am totally sick of people like you, throwing past in our faces. And I'm sick of people like Mamantov, trying to make gods out of monsters.
- Velma: Why do they call you Fluke?
- Fluke Kelso: Because I was a mistake. My mother had me when she was 46.
- Suvorin: Mr Kelso... I'm totally sick of people like you throwing past in our faces. And I'm sick of people like Mamontov trying to make Gods out of monsters.
- Fluke Kelso: [quoting Stalin] To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slate an implacable vengeance, then go to bed - there is nothing sweeter in the world.
- Fluke Kelso: If this book really exists, it's a piece of history.
- Old Papu Rapava: What use is history to me?
- Fluke Kelso: Well, history like this can sometimes be worth a lot of money.