There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.

I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.

Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary.

Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?

There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest.