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

"The greatest danger to freedom is the absence of a joke."

"I'm a writer, not a politician. My job is to ask questions, not to provide answers."

"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."

"I think the job of a writer is to be a witness, to bear witness to the world."