One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible.

My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition.

I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an appropriate language with which to tell the story: This seems to me quintessentially human, one of the great adventures of our species.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live.

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.