I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.

I read a lot of poetry. I read some history.

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.

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 don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.

I know important literary writers who can't get published.