Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

When I go to peoples' houses I like to sneak into their bedrooms and try on their underwear.

Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.

You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired – it’s hard work.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.