You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you coming? How long will you stay? Well, if I had nearly enough years, I would write a novel about being a refugee.

I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story.

It's not only America. Terrorism now is a threat to the whole world.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.

Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that it's threatened, when it's threatened, when it's in danger, then it becomes a curse or a blessing.