What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

Women and music should not be dated.

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to get us to see what is important in our lives.

Actually, I identify with all my characters, good and bad. I have to do that in order to make them genuine. I have to understand them even if I don't approve of them. Not completely - it's impossible; complete identification is, in fact, not desirable.

I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it.

When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk