Vladimir Voynovich. An Anthology of Satire and Humor from 20th-Century Russia

I only tell about things I've seen with my own eyes, or heard with my own ears, or have been told by someone I trust, or don't trust, very much. In any case, what I write is always based on something. Sometimes it's even based on nothing at all. But anyone even superficially familiar with the theory of relativity knows that nothing is a form of something, and something is also something, from which something can be extracted. (V. Voinovich)