"The world is a place of wonders, but also of horrors. And it's up to us to choose which ones we focus on."

"I like books that are a little bit dangerous."

"To be a writer is to be an outsider. It is to be someone who stands on the edges of society, looking in, and then reporting what he sees."

"A writer’s life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don’t have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it."

"To attack a book is to attack the human mind."