A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.

A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country

The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union struggle-are tearing our world to pieces.

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage.