Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

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.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

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

In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.