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

It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

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.

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.

You have to be an outsider to write.

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