Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say?

Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.

This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling.

My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.

Your purpose when driving is not to arrive at your destination safely or quickly. Your purpose when driving is...to impress your personality on the road.

You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven.

It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.