I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.

It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy.

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.

I cannot believe how fine I am with being bald.

The smaller a group, the easier it is for more people to argue and enter into discussions. The U.S. is vast. It's too large. The intellectuals hide out in enclaves, in big cities or universities, like a bunch of chickens hiding from a fox.