Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

If I can't write it would be as if I died.

Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.

your culture has become sophisticated, like a computer, or a drug that you take for a headache. You can use it, but you cannot explain how it works. Certainly not to girls who stack up their firewood against the side of the house.

In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them the same way we have agreed to see scars now. Sad words are just another beauty.

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.

I'm a much better writer for being a father.