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.

Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill.

Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

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!

Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.

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.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.