Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.

The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history

We should clearly understand that only the voluntary and conscientious acceptance by a people of its guilt can ensure the healing of a nation. Unremitting reproaches from outside are counterproductive.

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.

We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.

Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.