Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

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.

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.

If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful.

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.

I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.