A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

The individual protests against the world, but he doesn't get beyond protest, he is just a single protester. When he wants to be more than that, he has to counter power with power, he has to oppose the system with another system.

Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.