The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.