Politically I don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country.

We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.

I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.

I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.