Wash The Bones, Bring The Body, Leave

Being Taken Seriously, For A Young Writer, Is A Wonderful Form Of Encouragement, But At The Same Time, I Don't Think One Should Ever Feel Like Attempting A Kind Of Artistic Endeavor Is Beyond Your Scope Just Because Of Age Or Inexperience.

You Never Know What's Going To Happen In Your Life, And You Never Know What's Going To Happen In Someone Else's Life Either.

For Me It Was A Lot Harder To Come To Terms With The Death Of My Grandfather Than It Was To Come To Terms With What's Happened To The Former Yugoslavia.

We're All Entitled To Our Superstitions.

When I Was Eight Years Old, I Wrote A Paragraph-long Short Story About A Goat On My Mother's Hundred-pound, Black-and-white-screen Laptop. The Story Came About Largely Because I Liked The Way The Word 'goat' Looked On The Page, But I Decided Then And There That I Wanted To Be A Writer. That Desire Never Changed.