As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.

Objectivity is just male subjectivity.

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

We say, 'Shall we meet for a drink?', as though drinking were the main end of the appointment, and the matter of company only incidental, we are so shy about admitting our need for one another.[...]We say, 'Would you like to come for some coffee?', as though it were less frightening to acknowledge that we are heavily dependent on mildly stimulating drinks, than to acknowledge that we are at all dependent on the companionship of other people.

Well, I like the rain before it falls.