Politically I also 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. You want the politics of any complicated situation to be complicated in a book of fiction or nonfiction.

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.

I thought I was being loved because I was being altered.

The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion

Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again