I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little by little, their own character—the author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.