I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.

I want the marginality to come into the center. This is the thing I was conscious of growing up, when I later lived in England. I saw all these war movies that came out shortly after the war, and they were all about the war being fought by Englishmen or Americans, there were no other "allies" in it - from India or Australia, etc.

In the desert you celebrate nothing but water.

The one of the great sadnesses of any life is knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.

Come. We must go deeper with no justice and no jokes.

He walked out of the hospital into the sun, into open air for the first time in months, out of the green-lit rooms that lay like glass in his mind. He stood there breathing everything in, the hurry of everyone. First, he thought, I need shoes with rubber on the bottom. I need gelato.

We keep wanting to save those who are forlorn in this world. It’s a male habit.