A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste
I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.
I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.
We have ourselves to save.
Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!
A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.