Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Even your super weirdo creep cousin.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Even your super weirdo creep cousin.

Every life has a file, if you will.

Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature, etcetera.

...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.

What's happening in Russia is devoid of autobiographical interest for me. Maybe it's egocentric. Whatever it is, feel free to use it.