If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.

I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines

I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.

Library-denigrators, pay heed:suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.