I write different kinds of sentences, depending on what the book is, and what the project is. I see my work evolving. I'm writing long sentences now, something I didn't use to do. I had some kind of breakthrough, five or six years ago, in Invisible, and in Sunset Park after that. I discovered a new way to write sentences. And I find it exhilarating.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

"The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the horrors, all the wars, all the deaths, all the cruelties, there's still something that keeps us wanting to wake up the next morning and go on with our lives - to make children, to fall in love, to continue humanity.

Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant.