How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

I think the purveyors of e-books are only too happy for this atmosphere of 'everything belongs to everybody' to increase because it means they don't have to think so much about the original maker of the thing, or they can get away with paying them less.

People die when curiosity goes.

I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.

I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.