If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

Everything we do is tinged with the knowledge that this may be the last time that we will do this, and that makes what we're doing incredibly sweet.

I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist.

I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.

A plot begins when somebody has something to hide.

In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high.

Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.