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.

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.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?