I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that we enjoy in these lucky countries of the world.

Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things, in causation and meaning. But we live on a broken mirror, and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day.

English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.

For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an "affair".... And has it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?