A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

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

In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.

In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.

The dead are celebrated. The dead are loved. They give something to the living. Once you put something into the ground, Doctor, you always know where to find it.

At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life, I think that we read to escape. And I think that place, more than anything, provides that escape quickly, if an author is engaged with the place.

What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.