Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

It is important not to trust people too much.

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.