I Don't Discuss Works In Progress.

Success Will Ruin Your Life.

Every Person You Meet - And Everything You Do In Life - Is An Opportunity To Learn Something.

The Most Wounding Insult To An Educated Russian Was To Be Called Nekulturny-uncultured-yet The Same Men Who Sat In The Gilt Boxes At The Moscow State Opera Weeping At The End Of A Performance Of Boris Gudunov Could Immediately Turn Around And Order The Execution Or Imprisonment Of A Hundred Men Without Blinking. A Strange People, Made More Strange By Their Political Philosophy.

Life Was Such A Strange Thing, So Permanent When One Had It, So Fleeting When It Was Lost- And Those Who Lost It Could Never Tell You What It Was Like, Could They?

(stereotyping) Is Only For Those Without The Imagination To See People As They Are Instead Of Being Like Someone Else They Understand.