Are you who I think you are?

The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.

Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.

The idea that the curtain rises on what is often more or less a happy scene, and it will fall just a few hours later, and everyone will be dead or have gone mad... I find that kind of narrative very appealing.

To stutter through it with you or even stop stuttering and say nothing, was so lucky and soft, better talk than mile-a-minute with anyone. After a few minutes we’d stop rattling, we’d adjust, we’d settle in, and the conversation would speed into the night.

I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I like meeting them.

Wherever it's good, whatever strange, faraway land, let's go there, let's stay in that place alone.