The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it

We should clearly understand that only the voluntary and conscientious acceptance by a people of its guilt can ensure the healing of a nation. Unremitting reproaches from outside are counterproductive.

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

But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish, lies at the core of Western policies. For many Russians it was a grave disillusion, a crushing of ideals.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.