For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.

Transience is what is normal. The problem is that we are busily trying to create political structures and cultural expressions that deny that and to deny that is to deny the basic idea of what is human.

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.

There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.