If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.

If we want things to be okay, we will have to make things okay.

I would have bet money that Britain would not vote to leave the EU, and I would have been wrong. I would have bet money that Trump would not have been the Republican nominee, and I would have been wrong and I certainly would have bet money that he wouldn't win the election.

Transience is what is normal. The problem is that we are busily trying to create political structures and cultural expressions that deny that and to deny that is to deny the basic idea of what is human.

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

The mobile phone is very dangerous. If you're walking and looking at your phone, you're not walking - you're surfing the internet.

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.