There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people.

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.

I don't really like watching my work. I don't mind watching it when I was a little kid because I forgive myself a lot, since I was a little kid.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured.

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.