Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.

Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations.

Which of us can control his feelings?

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.