- Sanchez: You guys are real champions!.. Remember your past exploits: in your race towards birth, out of millions of spermatozoa, you were the ones to succeed in fertilizing the ovum. You, Fernandez, are a "sperm" champion... And you, Ivanov. Even you, Chicotelli.
- Andrei Ivanov: [recalls to himself] Chicotelli was Argentinean, but despite that, he couldn't sell a bloody encyclopaedia... Although I must admit I wouldn't be here now if it weren't for him.
- Chicoteli: [in Andrei's memory] Everything rotates, Ivanov, everything rotates... And failure to accept that vertigo, that reality - is what troubles me deep inside.
- Andrei Ivanov: [to himself] ... perhaps the final blame for the world's ills couldn't be placed on the Americans. And its causes were to be found in a lack of synchrony between the revolving patterns in nature and the linear path and monotony of the lives we lead.