Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

I don't have any style.

That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England