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

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

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

Nationality isn't soul.

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

In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.

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.