Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.