In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

As long as nothing happens anything is possible.

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.

Destruction after all is a form of creation.

If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union.

The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to be different; life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport has been stamped.

Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise; on the other hand I am not deliberately melodramatic; don't get too annoyed if I say that I write in the way that I do because I am what I am.