Envy is an insult to oneself.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.