I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.

My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness.

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.