An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position.

I want to make money, and I would like to have a lot of money, but I still believe that the only reason to write is that somehow it will make something or somebody better.

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.

You can see the diversity that pieces in the anthology represent, and then the interconnections-obvious and less obvious-between various stories or between various modes of storytelling. Diversity generates need for conversation, conversation generates common interests, as well as differences. Literature, as a human project, is all about that.