I'm afraid I didn't really like Caracas in Venezuela. From what I saw it seemed so crime-ridden that you really have to be on your guard all the time.

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.

I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.

I think I was righteous. I saw myself as the good guy in my own movie. I didn't get into many fights when I was younger, but when I did, they were righteous. I always thought I was defending something good. I fought for friends who couldn't fight for themselves. I was still being selfish and arrogant, but I was focused on what was fair and unfair.

I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.