The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.

... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.

The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.