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 do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.
I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.
I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.
The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.
I don't go to the movies because I don't like films.