You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

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

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.

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

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.

There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.

It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.