We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.

We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written.

The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.