In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.

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.

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.

... a man sitting still is alone, often, with the memory of all he doesn't have. And what he does have can look very much like nothing.

One Must Always Remember That Birth, Old Age, Disease And Death Comes At Any Moment In Regardless Of Whom We Are Or What We Have In Forms Of Material Possession.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.

Power is the ability to make change.

Am I a myth? Am I a legend? Or am I a phenomenon?

Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do.

Everybody has anger or regret in them one way or another. They all try different things to get it out. Some people go to psychiatrists. Some paint pictures. Some people talk it out.

You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.