The evil always comes from details.

‎Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music

I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand what it must have meant for the rebellions in the 19th century, especially in 1830 and 1848, when the mass circulated newspaper became so important for the spreading of information.

I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it.

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.