Andrei Platonov

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

If they don't think, people act senselessly.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.