Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?

You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected volume, which came out about few years ago. I didn't think of Winter Journal, for example, as an autobiography, or a memoir. What it is is a literary work, composed of autobiographical fragments, but trying to attain, I hope, the effect of music.

Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot, not to think of your ear or one of your eyes or elbow, also familiar to you in the context of the whole, but utterly anonymous when taken piece by piece. We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.