The human community is evolving... . We can survive anything you care to mention. We are supremely equipped to survive, to adapt and even in the long run to start thinking.

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

Literature is analysis after the event.

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

What matters most is that we learn from living.