If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
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The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
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But if I am not a criminal, I beg to be permitted to go abroad with my wife temporarily, for at least one year, with the right to return as soon as it becomes possible in our country to serve great ideas in literature without cringing before little men, as soon as there is at least a partial change in the prevailing view concerning the role of the literary artist. (Letter To Stalin)
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