If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.'

As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!

A horrible human toll the Russian Orthodox Church suffered throughout almost the entire 20th century. The Church is just rising from its knees. Our young post-Soviet state is just learning to respect the Church as an independent institution.

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a subconscious one, based on erstwhile fears - was panic.