So every so often, when I meet someone who's honestly appalled by my books and doesn't understand why they would be attractive to people... I find such people sort of charming, even though they usually don't like me.

Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative.

I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.

You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.

The only thing he cares about.

Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca.