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.

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.

I am interested in the subject which is Russia.

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

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

Tweet others the way you want to want to be tweeted.

Father giving advice to son: Never do anything once around the house that you don't want to do for the rest of your life.

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?

I appreciate your applause, but I don't do it for applause. I do it for cash, it's much better.

Even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little.

Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.

I write the most sexiest records out.