It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think of the short story as a literary form, or you can instead think of stories.

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

Memory narrativises itself.

It's difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just roll over and do other things.

We dreamt of light, but hoped for darkness.

When I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies were collective, both socialism/communism and nationalism.

I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.