To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.

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

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

Death means you are in the third person.

So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any personal involvement.

Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle