A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.

The human world is made of stories, not people.

Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.

There are so many cities in every single city.

Italians give their city sexes, and they all agree that the sex for a particular city is quite correct, but none of them can explain why. I love that. London's middle-aged and male, respectably married but secretly gay.

I'm not a great deep political thinker.