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

Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.

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.

Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made.

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

The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

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