Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space.

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

It is not fair to those who fight corruption that they have to fight the aggressiveness, the impunity of the corrupt.

Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does not seem to suffice. I mean, they are not mutually exclusive. One continues to write anyway but if you are called out to demonstrate, if people are being killed in the streets, it's hardly the moment to go for your pen and paper, you know, help in one way or the other.

Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.