There were lots of lies along the way in life. Lies without arms, lies that were ill, lies that did harm, lies that could kill. Lies on foot, or behind the wheel, black-tie lies, and lies that could steal.

If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.

Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.

For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it.

He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that’s never happened before.

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.

I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.