If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.

You meditate and then you can put on your pajamas, or you can imagine you're wearing your pajamas, and you talk about your piece of writing in the language you would use if you were wearing your pajamas and you were seated at a table with your very good friend. And you wouldn't have to get all dressed up or clean up the table.

I've been on television saying, "¡Vamos a la biblioteca!". That was great. Nobody had ever asked me.

When you have a flourishing of the economy you have a flourishing of the arts.

When you edit, you imagine your enemy is seated on the other side of the table. Your enemy! And your enemy is going to read that with a viciousness, because he knows where you didn't work on it. He's going to shake it and really aim for that jugular. So you are going to polish, and revise, and rewrite, and cut out, and shape it, so that your enemy has no place to grip it. That's how you revise.

I usually meditate and I call my spirit allies - anyone in the spirit world that I've got connections with. Even in the spirit world you need connections!

You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.