Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

The best defense is a good story.

People do not read, by and large. They watch television.

Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.

What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about.