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

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.

Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.

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.