Late style gets simpler and shorter, and here, I'm getting more abundant as I get older!

I don't want to use quotation marks anymore, I've gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn't use them, for instance, all the way back in the early eighties.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s there, he’s not really there.

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.