I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.

I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.

Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.