I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.

I think we think in terms of stories.

Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?

I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.

This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.