Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.

Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

It was not until after the coming of Christ that time and humans could breathe freely. It was not until after him that people began to live toward the future. Humans do not die in a ditch like a dog-but at home in history, while the work toward the conquest of death is in full swing; they die sharing in this work.