Sonja (Boris's sister)

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.

— But if there is no God, then life has no meaning. Why go on living? Why not just commit suicide?
— Well, let's not get hysterical. I could be wrong. I'd hate to blow my brains out, then see they found something.

— Nothingness. Non-existence. Black emptiness.
— What did you say?
— Oh, I was just planning my future.

— Are you suggesting passive resistance?
— No, I'm suggesting active fleeing.

— Come to my quarters tomorrow at three.
— I can't.
— Please!
— It's immoral. What time?
— Who is to say what is moral?
— Morality is subjective.
— Subjectivity is objective.
— Moral notions imply attributes to substances which exist only in relational duality.
— Not as an essential extension of ontological existence.
— Can we not talk about sex so much?

Father, Boris is trying to commit suicide. Last week he contemplated killing himself by inhaling next to an Armenian.

— Forgive my haste. We have always heard that Spanish blood is the hottest.
— I had mine cooled for the summer.

— Sex without love is an empty experience.
— Yes, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

— You think I was made in God's image? You think he wears glasses?
— Not with those frames.