To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.
Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.
I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.
It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.