The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe

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

There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars.

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

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

There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered!