I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the USA, which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The US has a young population, and everything can change within a year.

Remember that all the others are more afraid than you

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

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.

What happens in the world affects me. Sometimes, that's part of the writing.

If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.

I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.