That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.

I had no concept of this [healthy food] until very, very late in life, thanks to a trainer/nutritionist that I met who has been working with me since I was forty-five.

The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.

Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.

Every book takes you to the terror, that terrible place of possible failure.

You know that you wouldn't take a baby on a plane without diapers, so when you leave your house, take care of you, like you would a baby. Don't leave your house without packing some healthy things.

I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.