We all want to fix things. Just as we all believe that so much in life can be rectified. Mend fences, build bridges, reach out, engage in mutual healing.

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.

Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it.

We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.

Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.