Chicago is not a bad place to live. But the usual story of immigration is the happy fulfillment of human potential in America that is not available anywhere else - it's propaganda, really. It's more complicated than that.

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing; it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism.

When I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies were collective, both socialism/communism and nationalism.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.

I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.