My whole life is my work.

I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.

So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.

Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.

To be well in your mind you have first to be free.

Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their jungle camps, and the government soldiers were playing U2 in their trucks. I think everyone was killing everyone else and listening to the same music... That is a good trick about this world, Sarah. No one likes each other, but everyone likes U2.