It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.

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

A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.

The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

Work is what horses die of

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

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