The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.

You look out on the driving range and it looks like snow, but it isn't, it's covered in golf balls.

Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you.

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.

It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.

I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.

It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.