Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

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

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse.

One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.