Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Friends! Let us try to help if we are worth anything at all!

There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.

The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish, lies at the core of Western policies. For many Russians it was a grave disillusion, a crushing of ideals.

...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.

Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.