“When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself.”

“Time meant opportunity. After all, what more do we have than time? We measure it arbitrarily, but as we spend it, until its used up, it is called living.”

“He didnt have regular email like everyone else. He couldnt afford that digital fingerprint that the NSA, the CIA, the FBI and all the other espionage alphabeticals counted on for their privacy-bash...”

“He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur without the other.”

“I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.”

“I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with which the West viewed the fate of Eastern Europe.”

“Dear sirs, The cold war isnt over. When national borders fail, the epidermis is the last line of defense. We are counting on you.Sincerely,Patriot”

“Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.”

“In nothing is the difference between the Americans and the Soviets so marked as in the attitude, not only toward writers, but of writers toward their system. For in the Soviet Union the writer's jo...”

“Old stories sometimes slid out of her like lamp oil or light, stories containing details oblique and nearly incomprehensible to me or to anyone who has never known that world.”