Where I went, no one could follow. Yet someone managed to hold my hand.

I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.

Dogs are dim creatures, do not speak to me of their good sense--have you ever heard of a team of tomcats hauling a sled across the frozen wastes?

I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right.

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.