Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

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

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

An opposition is necessary and desirable for the healthy development of any country. You can scarcely find anyone in opposition, except for the communists, just like in Yeltsin's times. It is regrettable that there is still no constructive, clear and large-scale opposition in Russia. The growth and development of an opposition, as well as the maturing of other democratic institutions, will take more time and experience.