The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.