A man without a memory is only capable of doing evil, nothing else but evil.
I can't rid myself of the feeling that war is a product of the male nature.
I love how humans talk.
No book about Soviet sacrifice was as strong as the women's stories I heard as a child.
For me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes.
My writing is not just all facts and voices. I strive to create a text that works as a sign, pointing out undercurrents that lie beneath the facts.
Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it.
Showing just the dark side doesn't always work. The important thing is to show what we can learn from dark things, what good we find there.
What you have to remember about Belarus is that it's a small state - it has a population of less than 10m people - and like many small states, it has to be very careful about its relationships.
I don't love great ideas. I love the little human being.
People always speak beautifully when they are in love or close to death.
We, people of socialism, are not like others. We have our peculiar ideas about heroes and martyrs.
America is a remarkable country, but I have a feeling that it's a different country after 9/11.
We need a philosophy for humans and nature to live together.
All our lives, we fight for certain ideals, and they get diluted, and then we have to fight for them again.
I'm interested in love and in death. Everything evolves from these things.
Being in the public eye is easy for me because I come from a family of four generations of teachers, so I'm used to being around books and discussions. But to write, I very much need to be alone.
When I was a child, women spoke to me of how all they had was their memories, how their husbands went to war and never came back, so many tragedies. That chorus of voices filled my consciousness. It was part of life itself.
I will never write fiction.
Journalists do not write about human feelings.
