From the Aki Kaurismaki's first film, Crime and Punishment (1983), based on the Dostoevskij novel Crime and Punishment :
Sonja: How've you been?
Rodion: Fine - until now. Why did you come?
Sonja: To tell you, I'll wait for you.
Rodion: Eight years? Will you wait eight years for me? I'll tell you something. The man I killed is not important. I killed a louse, and became one myself. The number of lice remained constant. Unless I was one from the very beginning - but that's not important. I wanted to kill a principle, not a man. Killing a man may've been a mistake - but everybody's satisfied now.
Sonja: You mustn't think like that.
Rodion: Including me. And isolation means nothing to me, you know why? Because I've always been alone. Do you know what that means? That's why I don't want you to wait for me. Go away and live your own life. We've all got to die sometime. And there won't be a heaven afterwards, just something else.
Sonja: What?
Rodion: Spiders. Or something. How should I know?
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