Well, I Write In Exile Because I

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

I Have Assiduously Avoided Calling My Books Novels

I Have One Main Reader, Miriam Gomez, My Wife. She Reads Everything I Write - I Have Not Finished Writing Something And She Is Already Reading It.

A Good Smoker, Like A Good Lover, Always Takes His Time With A Cigar.