The whole Melrose series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.

The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

People never remeber happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

The whole Melrose series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.