My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.

Having translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However, I am not shocked, as it is not hard to find out what the words mean.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

I write out of my intellectual experience.