You have to be an outsider to write.

Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.

I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.

You have to be an outsider to write.

The research is the most interesting part… That’s how I work. I go some place and I walk it and I talk to people until I find what I’ve come for. Or not. Fortunately, I tend to find what I’m after.