Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined.

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

I think tone gives birth to the story.

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

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. I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic. When I see this kind of stuff, I think, they're smart, but I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.

I've always had a very developed superego. I also had a very powerful id, but there was no ego in the middle. So writing was always like letters sent from the id to the superego, saying, "What's going on here?" What I loved about writing was that I was totally weightless. I was amazed at the fact that I could be myself without being afraid that anyone would get hurt.

As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out.