Everybody is jumping up and down back in Russia. Probably lots of vodka, too..

Why aren't you afraid of me? I've seen my death, and you're not it..

How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and ….

Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so..

I just create, that's what I do..

I believe that we do not share as many values with Russia yet as we do with the United States. On the other hand, we have a strong interest in Russia….

We often do not see what we do not expect to see..

Relationships are now off-kilter..

I'm not in the business of harassing anybody.

It is in your nature to destroy yourselves..

But how can you speed up the transformation of society in a country as large as Russia? Those sounding the moral outcry are the ones who are trying t….

Things explain each other, not themselves..

I thought equality was non-negotiable..

You're never going to learn everything..

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had..

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money..

Things don't exist until they exist..

I get sidetracked very easily..

I thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, "We're just the mayonnaise.".

No one is content with his own lot..

Not a single reform effort in Russia has ever been completed..