Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.

I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.

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."

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.

Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.

We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.