No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

Suddenness," he says. " You do not prepare, you do not explain, you do not apologize. Suddenly, you go. And with you, you take all contemplation, all consideration of your own departure. All the suffering that would have come from knowing comes after you are gone, and you are not a part of it.

I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.

death should be celebrated...when you put something in the ground you always know where it is

In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.

My grandfather and I were very close.