Writing is a constant exercise in longing.

Sometimes journalists ask me, "What's the message?" There is no message. I think that fiction should not be trying to give messages. Just tell a story.

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if possible, a change in the conscience of some readers.

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.