How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.

There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder!

Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.

A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don’t care about.

If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it.

There are far more reasons for death than there are for life.

Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.