You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.

It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots.

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.

Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.

It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.