There is only one question: When will I be blown up?
Source, in full
Speech accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature (December 10, 1950), regarding "a general and universal physical fear" in his generation. Quoted by James Baker, "America and the Collapse of the Soviet Empire: What Has to Be Done" (December 12, 1991), in Vital Speeches of the Day, vol. 58, no. 6 (January 1, 1992)