There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader.

When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.

Why are some people highly principled and willing to do anything for their principles, while most of us are not? And I am willing to not only ask, but also answer the question.

Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.

I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of, but I didn't want to spend another seven years writing a book like that.

People everywhere feel differently at different times of their lives.

I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.

We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?

In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions.

We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.

Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his nose where he is not wanted?

Blessed are you, who mediate and believe in God’s Holy Scriptures.

I am permitted to travel in the corridor between sky and heather" from the poem "Beyond the Beacon" in TerraAffirmative

The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.

But you know, our show is our show, and it's not for everybody.

Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

With all the things I know, one could write a book... Although, one might also say that, considering all that I don’t know, one could create a library.

A foreman in the East wouldn't know how many workers he would have the next day, because part of his working force had left the system to go to West Germany.