Even in Siberia there is happiness.

Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.

He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.