He was unique. I don't think anybody did this kind of work before him or while he was alive, and I don't think anybody's doing it now. I don't think anybody can do it.

In those days, who bought? Who had money? Aside from being ostracized for doing something no one else was doing, these guys really struggled, and there were a number of people who were not art collectors, who just wanted to help.

He was an extremely modest person, one of the humblest people I knew, although some people might not think so. He could be rude, but what struck me about him was that he was the most honest person I ever met. He told you exactly how he felt. There was no BS, no editing, for sure.

Fusion has not been proven to be safe, and it is too costly.

Because my father was an army officer, I was told to enter the military school during the war. Luckily or unluckily, one month before the entrance examination, I got polio, which made my right arm numb. It's still numb.

In the western world, you can go out, take a boat trip to the Caribbean and so forth, and buy good things with your own money. But the Russian people with rubles cannot do that.