Our biggest moral debt is to the environment. Take-take-take, nothing given back.

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

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

She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them without feeling I'm acting.