The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.

Longing on a large scale makes history.

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

Technology and violence are interdependent.

A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.

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

If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.