It's a terrible poison, writing.

I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.

I was no good at being a child.

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.

In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself.