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

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

Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.

The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.

I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.