I mean, many times your creative problem is accidentally your personal problem, but it's not quite the same.

I believe in free will.

I have a really good life and I really like it.

Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and if you go back, you're not anywhere. You never belong to anything.

I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.

My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.