The Attempt To Devote Oneself To Literature

Truth Is Not Merely What We Are Thinking, But Also Why, To Whom And Under What Circumstances We Say It.

The Question Is Wholly Other, Deeper And Equally Relevant To All: Whether We Shall, By Whatever Means, Succeed In Reconstituting The Natural World As The True Terrain Of Politics, Rehabilitating The Personal Experience Of Human Beings As The Initial Measure Of Things, Placing Morality Above Politics And Responsibility Above Our Desires, In Making Human Community Meaningful, In Returning Content To Human Speech, In Reconstituting, As The Focus Of All Social Action, The Autonomous, Integral, And Dignified Human "i."

If [western] Relations With Russia Are To Be Friendly, They Must Be Open And Sincere, Otherwise There Can Be No Friendship At All. That Means One Should Be Able To Speak Openly About Everything At Meetings And Conferences. It Shouldn't Be That We Can't Discuss The Killing Of Journalists In Russia, Or The Suppression Of Human Rights, Or All The Warning Signs Surfacing In Russia Because Of Oil And Gas Or Other Economic Reasons. It's A Big Problem, But It's The Same In Western Relations With Arab States.

But If I Were To Say Who Influenced Me Most, Then I'd Say Franz Kafka. And His Works Were Always Anchored In The Central European Region.

Responsibility Is Something Higher Than My Family, My Country, My Firm, My Success. Responsibility To The Order Of Being, Where, And Only Where, They Will Be Properly Judged.