A Good Smoker, Like A Good Lover,

A Very Wise Author Once Said That A Writer Writes For Himself, And Then Publishes For Money. I Write For Myself And Publish Just For The Reader

Cigars Must Be Smoked One At A Time, Peaceably, With All The Leisure In The World. Cigarettes Are Of The Instant, Cigars Are For Eternity.

The Relationship Between Reader And Characters Is Very Difficult. It Is Even More Peculiar Than The Relationship Between The Writer And His Characters.

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.

American Literature Had Always Considered Writing A Very Serious Matter