You can mean more than one. You can mean thousands. I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you. I'll pretend you can hear me. But it's no good, because I know you can't.

He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed

Everybody acts as if they have free will. They act as if they can make these decisions; do they know they don't? I think there's been some back-down on the idea that everything is determined.

If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.

Sometimes reactions can be quite surprising: readers like things that you, the author, feel you've barely gotten away with; or they dislike one of the parts you secretly think is one of your little gems.

You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye

Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.