As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.

The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.

Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.

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.

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.

I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating with your car. So when you navigate with your car, you want to get somewhere. When you surf, you don't want to get somewhere, you just don't want to fall off your board.

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.