Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

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

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

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing.

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

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.