Tobacco Is The Opiate Of The Gentleman,

My Mother Had Been Educated At A Convent, And She Had Been Converted To Communism By My Father During Stalin's Most Rampant Period, At The Beginning Of The 1930s. So She Had Two Gods, God In Heaven And God On Earth.

But I Do Not Have The Reader In Mind When I Write. No True Writer Does That

What I Do Believe Is That There Is Always A Relationship Between Writing And Reading, A Constant Interplay Between The Writer On The One Hand And The Reader On The Other

Puns Are A Form Of Humor With Words.

I Believe That Writers, Unless They Consider Themselves Terribly Exquisite, Are At Heart People Who Live By Night, A Little Bit Outside Society, Moving Between Delinquency And Conformity