When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me.

When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story is sort of discovered as I write it.

I often need a limited space. It's like having a house to roam around in and reinvent and have things to happen in, kind of like a French farce. Doors opening, doors closing, new people arriving, and disappearing, and so forth.

We keep wanting to save those who are forlorn in this world. It’s a male habit.

What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language.

I'll be looking at the moon, but I'll be seeing you.

There was a time when mapmakers named the places they travelled through with the names of lovers rather than their own.