…Shakespeare. I mean, nothing preceding Shakespeare really indicated what this man would be. Nothing in Russian literature really indicated that Tolstoy would come along. I don't know. I mean, after the event, one, by stretching the imagination a little and…

…which carries, at the same time, a kind of parable-like meaning, as you get, say, in Dostoevsky or in the best of Tolstoy, this is something extraordinary, I feel. I take it from that last remark that you rate Dostoevsky ahead of Tolstoy. No, well,…

…best of Tolstoy, this is something extraordinary, I feel. I take it from that last remark that you rate Dostoevsky ahead of Tolstoy. No, well, I mean, they're very different, but I love them both. I mean, I think I'm always flabbergasted when I reread…

…very different, but I love them both. I mean, I think I'm always flabbergasted when I reread some of the short things of Tolstoy, I mean, like The Death of Ivan Ilyich, what an astounding work that is. Of course, some of the things, I mean, apart…

…for good or whether we shall use these immense potentialities in completely inhuman and abominable ways. More than 50 years ago, Tolstoy said that in a society which is badly organized, as ours is, where a small minority rules over the majority, every…

…a kind of plan to which we have to conform the sociological idea of fate is very close to that which was elaborated by Tolstoy in War and Peace the idea that historical events are determined not by the choices of individuals or small groups but by the…