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.

It's not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching toward bliss, never quite getting there.

I believe people are much more complicated than they can handle.

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

I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

My skin was the border between the world and me.