A state of war only serves as an excuse for domest...

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.