Justness exists, even if few people exist who feel it.

People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.

If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.

Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.

A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall to pieces, turn out to be sickly and pale, convince no one. Works which draw on truth and present it to us in live and concentrated form grip us, compellingly involve us, and no one ever, not even ages hence, will come forth to refute them.

A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.

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