I am interested in the subject which is Russia.

If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.

For us, the best time is always yesterday.

I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.

If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.

Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship this pressure produces diamonds.

He was a lawyer and he knew that it would be best to trust his journalist friend, but not to tell his own lawyer

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions.

Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent.

I like that idea that what I do might be mainstream. Might be.

We don't always help people by doing everything for them. That type of behavior can actually contribute to their problems because it helps then never take responsibility on their own.

He smiled, thinking that for just an instant, it was easy to imagine they were still married, both of them on the same team, both of them still in love. Except, of course, that they weren't.

You want to know what scares people? Success.

I wasn't prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.