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A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.