I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.

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.

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

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

I've never meditated for a moment in my life. I don't know how it works. But one of the things you have to do to put yourself in the meditating mode is stop narrating yourself to yourself.

I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.

I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.