"It upsets me that we have lost the ability to live in peace: paint watercolors, play the piano, receive guests, keep diaries, have picnics. Why don't we have enough time for all this? Why can't I come to a person without a preliminary call and be sure that he will be glad to me? What is everyone so busy with? Pushkin, Mussorgsky, Mayakovsky also worked like crazy, but they had time for communication with people, entertainment, social life, even drunkenness. And then this impudent and ugly Edison ruined everything: a gramophone, a light bulb, a telephone - these are terrible inventions. They ate our time. I still remember the times when I wrote letters, worked unhurriedly, had leisure time, and then I left for the technically equipped West, and hours, days, years began to slip through my fingers." Otar Ioseliani
