The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.

Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.

the mute protest in your own bones

Writing a novel is agony.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.