I Think That Like All Writers -

I Read The Odyssey Because It Was The Story Of A Man Who Returned Home After Being Absent For More Than Twenty Years And Was Recognized Only By His Dog.

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.

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.

That Is What I Define As A Novel: Something That Has A Beginning, A Middle And An End, With Characters And A Plot That Sustain Interest From The First Sentence To The Last. But That Is Not What I Do At All.

Puns Are A Form Of Humor With Words.