I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.

For us, the best time is always yesterday.