And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.

The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.

I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.

I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.

I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.

I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book.

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.