The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.

The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history

Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.

The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.

We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.