One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.