The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.

I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.