I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough.

I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.

I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.

Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.

In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.

I have always thought that Heaven is a place for people who had had a good life, but that is not true. God is merciful and way too good to make it so. The Heaven is just a place for people who could not be really happy while living on Earth. I was once told that people who commit suicide are taken back on Earth to repeat life from the very beginning because if they did not like it once, it did not mean they would not like it the next time. But those who did not fit in on Earth at all, ended up here. Everyone comes to Heaven in their own way.

I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic.