The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.
Global terror does not respect national boundaries.