Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.

Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged! Kill every German - wipe them out!

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art. Cosmopolitanism - a world in which things lose their color and form, and words lose their significance. We love in our past all that we consider native, wonderful and fair.

It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.

Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.