For me, language is a freedom. As soon as you have found the words with which to express something, you are no longer incoherent, you are no longer trapped by your own emotions, by your own experiences; you can describe them, you can tell them, you can bring them out of yourself and give them to somebody else. That is an enormously liberating experience.

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.

It's not progress to take books off shelves. If one more person says this [ebooks] is the new Gutenberg, I will probably commit homicide, because the whole point of Gutenberg was to put books on shelves, not to take them off.

I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.

There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.

The most prosaic of us betray a belief in the inward life every time we talk about 'my body' rather than 'I.