I've never meditated for a moment in my life. I don't know how it works. But one of the things you have to do to put yourself in the meditating mode is stop narrating yourself to yourself.

I'm not nervous if I think about something for nine years and then I don't write it. Even if it fades it doesn't concern me. It'll come back if it's worth it.

Memory narrativises itself.

Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.

To write has to be related to a drive inside.

I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a conversation, or experience of grace.

I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.