If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?

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

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union struggle-are tearing our world to pieces.

I was always optimistic. And I held to and was guided by my views.

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life

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