Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.

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.

Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.

The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.

Technology is lust removed from nature.