Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.

A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.