The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

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.

One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

Cracks make caves collapse.

Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.