If you don't educate people well, then you're going to have a lot of violent, angry young men and women. You can go around saying they're all so violent, just throw them in jail, this is an underclass, what can you do? You can create fear. The issue of violence is very suitable for a repressive society. Then you can have more legislation, more police, more laws to fight crime, when all you need to do is to encourage people in a different way.

When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.

There’s no story that’s the start of itself.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.