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

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

There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

My skin was the border between the world and me.

I hate traveling and being away from my family. But I like meeting my readers, as what I write is actualized in them. Those encounters are exhilarating to me.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.