More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun.

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.

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

In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun.