I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.

I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.

I think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a sentence, in fact, my work is about just that: living in dangerous times.

Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this

To be a tourist is to escape accountability.

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.