Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.

I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.

what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.

Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.

What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.