If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.

Me, I want to bloody kick this moronic bloody world in the bloody teeth over and over till it bloody understands that not hurting people is ten bloody thousand times more bloody important than being right.

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

Time is the speed at which the past decays.