If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.

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

Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.

I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.

We have ourselves to save.