Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.

Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.

Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability.

Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

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

I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.