I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.

I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.

It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.

We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.

I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.

He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.

I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.