I think you’re amazing,’ someone says to someone else, but it doesn’t matter who, because they’re all amazing really. People are amazing.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.

These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through.

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.