I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

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

Don't feel that you have to tailor your literature a particular way to please any school of ideology. There will emerge in its own right, effortlessly, some kind of ideological direction which is a reflection of your thinking and you want your thinking, above all.

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.

The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.