I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.

I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.

When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.

Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.

It's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what happened. Some people really want hard explanations. I'm the other way. I like mysteries. I don't want to frustrate people. I don't want people to feel like they got no answers, but I want to approach the mystery and sit with it.