In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.

He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.

The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it's like to be a woman doesn't strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.

Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.

It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.