The two interviews (2011; 2012) with Boris Uspensky on the history and the contemporary state of linguistics and semiotics discuss the necessity to elaborate a common terminology in semiotics, while at the same time speaking about perspectives for interdisciplinary research, various research models, and the possibility of producing proof in the humanities. Commenting upon some of his own works, in particular “Ego loquens” (2007), B. Uspensky reflects upon the crucial events of his academic life and on the contact he had with colleagues, emphasizing the importance of his friendships with Roman Jakobson and Juri Lotman.