Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

Work is what horses die of

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.

It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.