If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings.

In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their literature literally.

I don't have extravagant tastes or expenses - like with cars, clothes, or whatever.

It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.

My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.

I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery.

I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.