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

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

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.

I am interested in the subject which is Russia.

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.

The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning.

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.

We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever try to keep up apart.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.

It's time for the Americans to say they're going to live up to their obligations and return the dollars that have been illegally taken from Canadians.

True prosperity can only come from a healthy economy and sound money. That can only be achieved in a free society.

I also plan to release a ballads collection.