The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.

I'm not at all contemporary, not even modern, and the fact that I would be so quaintly attracted to that wrestling rule makes me, I suppose, seem all the more old-fashioned. I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

Life is serious but art is fun!

…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.