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.

Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to read - poetry for example, or high-quality prose. They're used to reading magazines and newspapers, which are only of the mind, but not of the body.

I don't want to use quotation marks anymore, I've gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn't use them, for instance, all the way back in the early eighties.

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?

Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.