I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts.

Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist.

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.

Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.