To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.

There are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to talk myself out of writing, sometimes for many years, and when I run out of arguments, I write.

Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."

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 end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.

When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.