Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

Until you know who you are you can’t write.

Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.