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

Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country. You want the politics of any complicated situation to be complicated in a book of fiction or nonfiction.

It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country.

That's one of the great sadnesses of any life - knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

I have to teach myself not to read too much into everything. It comes from too long having to read into hardly anything at all.

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.