The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners.

We have all the technology to record things in the streets. Now the historians cannot twist it or change it, because we have cellular phones or video cameras, and we are filming in the streets what's going on. We have the voices of everybody recorded. There's too much recording and I think that's wonderful.

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.

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

When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It's not a lecture.

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

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