When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are your habits, which gods you honor, and I will tell you who you are. Man not only creates culture, he carries it around with him. Man is culture.

In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another.