We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it.

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.

When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.

It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'

Certainly I've never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It's a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing.