On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ... I can't do it.

Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.

When the ground starts moving, all bets are off.

Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.

Mourning has its place but also its limits.

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.

We all have the same dreams.