I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.

I was a nerdy kid and I was writing and showing other fellows who are still my friends what I was writing. We were sharing that and kept sharing it. The experiences they had were so different than mine.

As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.

I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think.

I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

Every story, every poem, every written piece is about belonging. There is a me, there is a we, there is an us, and we want to belong to it or we don't want to belong. You can read every story with this as its main focus.