English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

I write in American slang.

I was a precocious reader.

It’s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it’s wrong to think that this means... there is some kind of uniform world culture.

You can really do more than you think you can do.

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.