Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.

There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe.

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.

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.

Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations.