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

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.

What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it.

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

That's one of the many things I hate about life, that it's a hideously cliched business.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal.