Here, lads, we live by the law of the taiga. But even here people manage to live. D'you know who are the ones the camps finish off? Those who lick other men's left-overs, those who set store by the doctors, and those who peach on their mates.

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must t…

Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?

At no time has the world been without war. Not in seven or ten or twenty thousand years. Neither the wisest of leaders, nor the noblest of kings, nor yet the C…

'I won't die, eaten alive,' he said. He put a fresh clip in his gun. 'I'll do you first if you want, or you can do it yourself.'

To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.

It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.