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

The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.

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

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.

Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left of the barely bearable raw immediacy of childhood, all the things solved that had puzzled me when I was small, all mysteries settled, all questions answered, and the moments dripping away, unnoticed almost, drip by golden drip, toward the final, almost unnoticed, quietus.

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.