When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.

Siberia is so big, it’s almost more an idea than a place

Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.

I recreate myself

Kethry had once described summoning as being “like balancing on a rooftree while screaming an epic poem in a foreign language at the top of your lungs.

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Being with my family is my highest priority.

Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.

The camera is a kind of license.

... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.

Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to run through my own veins.

One of the first things I bought when I made 'Roseanne Show' money was a farm in Iowa.