Apparently I’ve been typecast in science fiction: I’m a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew.
Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.
A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.
The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
An educator should think of a child as a garderner thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by having the right soil and the right kind amount of water. If your roses fail to bloom, it does not occur to you to whip them, but you should try to find out what has been amiss in your treatment of them. . . The important thing is what the children do, and not what they do not do. And what they do, if it is to have value, must be a spontaneous expression of their own vital energy.
Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The reader generally needs a single character as the means of perception, as the character to whom the events are happening, as the character with whom he is to empathize in order to have the events of the writing happen to him.
I think that's one of the reasons for the Sarajevo conference, that Yugoslavia, Serbia, return to the family of nations because enduring peace can only come when you have Serbia within that framework.
Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.