As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.

I like smoking pot, but I'm not the kind of guy who smokes every day.

I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.

I think that before my son was born, I didn't have a strong sensation for future. I was living in this kind of never-ending present.

To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the choices you want to take on your way down. My characters choose to yearn and not lose hope even when the odds are completely against them. It doesn't make the landing at the end of that fall any less painful but, somehow, it helps them keep a little dignity their bone broken body.

You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.