Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.
Source: In NY Times, 2 Feb 86
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko, (Jul 18 1933-2017), Russian poet; He was spokesman for the post-Stalin generation of Russian poets, and their demands for greater artistic freedom; wrote Bratsk Station.