Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters.

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.

I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

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

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.