Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

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.

Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.

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

Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.