There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.

You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds." "What, a phobia?" "Sort of." "Well, that's the common term for an irrational fear of birds." "What do they call a rational fear of birds, then?

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.

A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire.

You know you can set fire to the capacity to say.

She smiled again. "Do you like cat?" she said. "Yes," said Richard. "I quite like cats." Anaesthesia looked relieved. "Thigh?" she asked, "or breast?