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.

I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device.

It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as important as his words.

I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.