Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.

I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.

Any moment called NOW is always full of possibles.

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice.

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.