To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.
John BanvilleI shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.
John BanvilleThe Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.
John Banville