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

It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.

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

I think it's interesting, from a creative point of view, to have witnessed the loss of consciousness on a national level and on a cultural level - Bush had 91 percent support in the polls after 9/11. We wanted to kick some ass!

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.

I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.