One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.

... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.

... any country that is not careful can be seized.

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . . . loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.