Ian Frazier

On two or three book tours, I have visited bookstores in the Mall of America and signed copies of my books and introduced myself to store employees who I hope will sell them.

I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.