I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

We dreamt of light, but hoped for darkness.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility.

If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.