It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy appetites beyond restraint.

... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!

Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?

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.

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.

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.