Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own.

I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.

I'm not sure if you're the person for me any more.

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.