If I can get somewhere, I'm all right. If not, I'm miserable.
I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language.
Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.
Russian talk of political evil is as natural as eating.
Bad literature is a form of treason.
A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or given to lies; whether he is an ambitious man. One should define oneself first of all in those terms, and only then in terms of culture, race, creed.