Fiction is a report from the interior.

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.

To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.

Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.

The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the struggle of every human life is to somehow claim a place on the planet, but it's at the forefront of the experience of the wandering race. The wandering people.

I always need huge amounts of time to do anything.