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.

Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.

Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility has been demonstrated and proved many times in history. What is more, it is not simply crude power that triumphs abroad, but its exultant justification. The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing.

... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?