Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?

God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need to live. I want to live, I want my children to live. Everyone I know wants to live. You have to ask yourself what is more important to you, life is death. What is this world about - life or death?

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.

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

You have to suspend thinking in narratives. The moment you are conscious of yourself the gap opens up. And in this gap, stories are generated.

Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."