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

Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans too?

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage . . . . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society.

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.

The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.