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

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art were are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by reason.

Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations.