I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.

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

Fathers die.You keep on loving them in any way you can.You can't hide him away in your heart.

How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or that by accident, survive or improve by the luck of the draw, with little choice or determination on our part.

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.

Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now.

People don't write about kids; you have to give them a lot of freedom, and that causes anarchy and that causes farce.