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

I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

Still, everybody wants to eat.

I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.