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.

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.

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

We can rarely tell others what we really think about them--not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves.

I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.

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