Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, you know, that's not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem... Maybe.

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.

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

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

Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

The evil always comes from details.