I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.

I think of myself as a really happy person.

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

I know you'll think this is crazy, but all I want to do is hold you, and I think that if you'll let me do that just for a few seconds, I can walk away, and never speak to you again.

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective