When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.

In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.

Who will dare say he has defined art?

With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall that the primary key to our being or non-being resides in each individual human heart, in the heart’s preference for specific good or evil. Yet this remains true even today, and it is, in fact, the most reliable key we have. The social theories that promised so much have demonstrated their bankruptcy, leaving us at a dead end.

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.