Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.

I never thought of myself as an outsider. Because outside of what? You would have to give advantage to this space where you're not, to think of it as sovereign because you're not there. I was always in the center of where I needed to be.

I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters.

Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate a city with a history of racial segregation.

What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.

What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing; it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism.

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.