Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

Fantasy gets a mixed reception - a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle.

Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.