Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.

It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

When he died he would not end. The world would end.

Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´

I think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a sentence, in fact, my work is about just that: living in dangerous times.